David Fahrenthold Quotes

Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details.

If I ask you to write down the last 4 digits of your social security number, and then take you out to lunch and ask you how many dentists there are in Manhattan, there's going to be a high correlation between those two numbers. What happens is that the number psychologically makes you feel confident.

I ought not to speak about the dead because the dead are all over the place.

We should make it as easy as possible to be able to get a legal work visa - not citizenship, not a green card. Just a work visa, with a background check and a Social Security card so that applicable taxes would get paid.

Social Security is a social insurance program - it is not designed to be the same thing as a 401(k).

If younger people see older people who haven't planned ahead and have to rely on charity, the young will be more likely to provide for the future. Today when someone plans poorly, the only consequence people see is a demand for more government.

All of us who serve in the House of Representatives and the Senate pay into Social Security.

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Words do not pay for my dead people.

We have to get control of our borders. You can only do that if you make companies obey the law and not hire undocumented or illegals. They can only do that is if they have a Social Security Card that has biometrics so they know whether the person is legal or not.

I wish to be cremated. One tenth of my ashes shall be given to my agent, as written in our contract.

As most New Yorkers have done, I have given serious and generous thought to the state of my apartment should I get killed during the day.

Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.

I'm not around real dead people all that often - most people aren't - but when you are, you tend to be very, very respectful and quiet, and people do tend to whisper 'cause you're trying to show massive amounts of respect, but if this is your daily life, you have to figure out a way to go about it and not go insane by the time you reach Friday.

I still have my original social security card signed when I was 13.

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

The only people you will issue visas for are those that arrive in coffins.

Social Security is the widest accepted contract in our society.

Sons represent security, insurance, a 401(k), a bank.

There is a way for the IRS to be able to have a double check to make sure individuals don't file on your Social Security number early and try to get a tax return and make it chaotic for you to file your own taxes. That's not been done.

I tell my children now that they are older, 'If something happens to me... don't make no big fuss over me. Don't make no big expense on my funeral. Don't put any pressure on the rest of the family. I've loved everybody, and I hope they loved me. But don't create this big expense for the family.'

What's going to happen when I die? I may be buried, or I may be cremated, I may give my body to science. I haven't decided yet.

I have made my will; I have been tormented to do it. I have bought repose; I know the powerlessness and inutility of it.

I voted in support of H.R. 5192, which seeks to curb identity fraud by requiring the Social Security Administration (SSA) to develop a database that financial institutions can use to compare their consumer data against SSA records.

The task of tracking deaths for the federal bureaucracy is an enormous one; about 2.5 million Americans die each year. Federal officials say the vast majority of these cases are handled correctly: The death is recorded. Government money is no longer sent to that person. But not always.