Noam Chomsky Quotes

Social Security has been effective for 70 years; prior predictions of its demise have been totally overstated.

Social Security is a family insurance program, not an investment scheme.

I don't want to get people nervous falling off their chairs, but Social Security is a socialist program. It's a program by which the United States government has said that when you get old you should have a steady source of income.

The Social Security program is a pact between workers and their employers that they will contribute to a common fund to ensure that those who are no longer part of the work force will have a basic income on which to live. It represents our commitment as a society to the belief that workers should not live in dread that a disability, death, or old age could leave them or their families destitute.

The Social Security Act offers to all our citizens a workable and working method of meeting urgent present needs and of forestalling future need. It utilizes the familiar machinery of our Federal-State government to promote the common welfare and the economic stability of the Nation.

[Social Security ] is not in crisis at this stage. Leave Social Security alone. We have a lot of other places we can look that is in crisis. But Social Security is not.

Social Security is not a retirement savings plan; it is a social insurance program. It's a contract that says, as a society, we will look out for you and your family when you can no longer work.

I believe that social security should be a universal retirement guarantee and not means tested.

The automatic stabilizer is unemployment insurance, food stamps, additional coverage of Medicaid.

The main purpose of Social Security is to redistribute wealth, to make an increasingly large number of Americans dependent on government for their basic needs in their retirement years.

There is a lot of room for improvement in Social Security. We owe our children the most financially sound system possible. They will have paid into it their entire working lives. They deserve to be protected by it. for our children and grandchildren.

When I look at Social Security, I consider it the most important social program in the United States, arguably the most successful program in the world.

All Americans have a sacred duty to guarantee Social Security benefits to our nation's senior citizens.

The promise of Social Security was reflected in President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's inter-generational compact that rewards hard work and provides retirement security.

Social Security is a promise that we cannot and must not break.

Social Security is meant to be - to make sure that no one who's worked hard and played by the rules and paid into the system grows old in poverty in America.

Social Security is a problem solving program, not a problem creating one .... Social Security is our best anti-poverty program.

It is not in accordance with the genius of our Government or our country to pay pensions.

Social Security works better than any other program in the world. Why dismantle it now?

Social Security is the most important social program in America.

We must unequivocally reject any cuts to Social Security or Medicare benefits.

Social Security is the greatest swindle of the poor ever.

The welfare state, which grew out of post-war solidarity, has for decades been based on the principle that those who pay into the system are entitled to expect that the safety net will be there for them when they fall on hard times.

Imagine a country where the vast majority of seniors live in poverty, a country where for many there are no golden years, but a time of struggle and dependence. That was the United States before the creation of Social Security, which has proven to be one of the most effective and important government programs in our history.

Social Security is a government program with a constituency made up of the old, the near old and those who hope or fear to grow old. After 215 years of trying, we have finally discovered a special interest that includes 100 percent of the population. Now we can vote ourselves rich.