Emanuel Cleaver Quotes

We will battle day and night to pass social security reform.

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

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 one of the greatest achievements of the American government, protecting our elderly against poverty and assuring young people of a more secure future.

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!

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

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

Social Security is the most important social program in America.

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 a tax.

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

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.

Old age treats freelance writers pretty gently.

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.

Part of the middle class promise is that, after a lifetime of hard work, you'll be able to retire and enjoy the fruits of that labor. Medicare was established to secure that promise.

Social Security is not just another government spending program. It is a promise from generation to generation.

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.