Louis Navellier Quotes

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

I think of doing a series as very hard work. But then I've talked to coal miners, and that's really hard work.

Meat workers may have been looked down upon socially, but at least they were well-paid and were a fit and lively bunch as a result of hard, honest physical work.

The national framework of social insurance - social security, unemployment and disability benefits, work programs, and workers' compensation - protected citizens from the kinds of risks that private markets couldn't or wouldn't insure.

I would much prefer to be a judge than a coal miner because of the absence of falling coal.

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

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

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

We are all fed from hundreds and thousands of hands. Often we do not know whose they are nor how they work. Only a few of us ever visualize the hands that grope in the coal mines or push levers in the mills or handle axes in the lumber camp.

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

Our Hispanic community needs to understand how important the Social Security system is for not only its retired citizens, but also its disabled workers.

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

An unskilled middle-aged man can work in the mines, and it pays well.

We must ensure that every worker has healthcare and is able to save for their retirement. We must ensure that our workers have safe and health working conditions.

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

Give the working-man the right to work as long as he is healthy; assure him care when he is sick; assure him maintenance when he is old.

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

Old age pensions and insurance against sickness, accident and unemployment are cheaper, are better business than jails, poor houses, asylums, hospitals.

We must remember that the real problem is not how to produce some improvement in the condition of the working man— for that has to a certain extent been attained already— but how to secure his complete material independence.

Labor: a man coins himself into his labor,—turns his day, his strength, his thought, his affection into some product which remains as the visible sign of his power; and to protect that, to secure that to him, to secure his past self to his future self, is the object of all government. There is no interest in any country so imperative as that of labor; it covers all, and constitutions and governments exist for that,—to protect and insure it to the laborer.

We've got to get everything we want—a works program, social security, wages and hours, everything—now or never.

Social Security is the most important social program in 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.

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