Jim Leach Quotes

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

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

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

Social Security is unequivocally the one contract the country is overwhelmingly in favor of.

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

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.

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 family insurance program, not an investment scheme.

Social Security is the widest accepted contract in our society.

Social Security is fundamentally strong.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 plan that actually was designed in a much different time, in a different era, and with a different set of American demographics in mind.

Social Security and Medicare are among the best things about America.

Social Security may be the most beloved of all the government's programs, partly because it requires so little thinking. You pay taxes while you work, then you and your spouse collect until you die.

What's lost in this whole debate, unfortunately, is that Social Security is not a giveaway where we take money to give to other people. It's a contract with the government... that's worked for 75 years. It's the most successful government program that we've ever had.

Social Security is not broke, and Social Security does not need to be privatized.

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 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.

Social Security is an extremely complicated program.