Martin O'Malley Quotes

I think we should worry about Social Security first and then tax cuts second.

We have a serious structural deficit problem. And it needs to be addressed. The president is trying to address it through reforms of Social Security, but the problem is there with other entitlement programs like Medicare and Medicaid.

What should we do with this projected surplus? I have a simple four-word answer: Save Social Security first.

Unless we get entitlement costs under control, Social Security will inevitably square off against national security.

We can have tax cuts, but when we have tax cuts and do not have a surplus, the amount of the tax cut goes straight to the bottom line, adds to the deficit, and the deficit adds to the national debt, and sooner or later, the debt has to be paid.

Despite the state of denial exhibited by most Democrats, Americans all across the nation acknowledge that changes are necessary to preserve Social Security for today's younger workers.

Social Security has not contributed to the deficit problem.

Because Social Security has not contributed to our debt, Americans should be skeptical of any politician who says that benefits Americans have earned must be reduced in order to address our national debt.

Social Security has nothing to do with the deficit.

The Missourians I hear from just don't buy the idea that the only way to tackle the national debt is to drastically alter Medicare and Social Security.

We should stop having a conversation about cutting Social Security a little bit or a lot.

... the Social Security trust fund is not spare money; it is spoken for.

All the Social Security Trust Fund Money Is Gone!

To deal with entitlements we must either raise taxes, cut benefits, or borrow inordinate amounts of money.

We ought to deal with Social Security in a separate conversation that is not part of deficit reduction.

Social Security is legally prohibited from contributing to the deficit. It cannot use debt to pay out benefits.

Will some reporter, or some Republican on the Sunday shows, please ask why tax cuts raid the non-existent Social Security Trust Fund but all the Democrats' new spending doesn't? Will someone please ask that?

We ought to look at Social Security. We ought to ask ourselves the question, is there inherently something wrong with Social Security that a man like me is eligible for Social Security? There's something wrong with the system.

If the economy is strained, then Social Security, like the rest of the government, will be, too.

It's hard to exaggerate the importance of preserving the financial integrity of Social Security.

In the current law we're seeing Social Security dwindle. And so what we're saying is if we're going to reduce taxes we just want to make sure that there are things within the law that pay for it.

I think we need to make sure that we are putting Social Security on a sustainable path. It's absolutely something that the federal government is going to be involved in, in the future.

We need to strengthen and save Social Security for today's workers. If we don't act now, this system, born out of the New Deal, will become a bad deal.

If the U.S. Government was a company, the deficit would be $5 trillion because they would have to account by general accepted accounting principles. But actually they encourage government spending, reckless government spending, because the government can issue Treasury bills at extremely low interest rates.

You know, Floridians, we've paid into Social Security. Like a lot of other government programs, we sent money to D.C. We expect to get that money back. We expect that our Social Security is real. So, we have to fix Social Security.