Michel Temer Quotes

The Social Security System is the one great social policy achievement of the twentieth century.

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

I think we will begin to see some real efforts made to do things like protecting Social Security and Medicare.

We all know that Social Security is one of this country's greatest success stories in the 20th century.

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

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

There is a need for Social Security reform to ensure its stability, and Congress must act.

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

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.

The country will also need 'new forms of social welfare' instead of its current system which is excessively centred on pensions.

We must work to stabilize Social Security. We must not gamble with our nation's social insurance program, one of our most popular and effective federal programs that has remained dependable and stable for the past 70 years.

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.

The Social Security trust fund is in pretty good shape today and we should not embark upon risky, dangerous schemes which will, in fact, undermine Social Security, such as privatization.

The Roosevelt enactment of Social Security was a moral revolution in our country: We were assured that we would never reach the very depths of poverty. And to be told, that we are now going to gamble it, on Wall Street, is nonsense!

Most of my folks back home think Social Security and Medicare are sacred commitments stronger than the strongest contract. And yet if you look at the details here in Washington, they're not even promises. They're scheduled benefits. I think we need to do all that we can to make sure those benefits are real.

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

I don't support getting rid of Social Security.

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

I never sought to privatize Social Security.

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 covenant that should not be broken.

Social Security is a program that should be strengthened and preserved for future generations.

Social Security is at last on the nation's front burner.

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

Social Security is the widest accepted contract in our society.