All Quotes

Social psychology is especially interested in the effect which the social group has in the determination of the experience and conduct of the individual member.
‐‐ George Herbert Mead

Social reality is so complicated that, once you join one team or the other, you become specialized in detecting certain patterns, but you become blind to other patterns.
‐‐ Jonathan Haidt

Social rejection doesn't just cause emotional pain; it affects our physical being.
‐‐ Leonard Mlodinow

Social revolutions and group revolutions are good, and we need that, but we also need personal revolution - revolution within ourselves that change who we are as people.
‐‐ Ziggy Marley

Social revolutions are never simple.
‐‐ Yair Lapid

Social satire has been around since people have been around.
‐‐ David Walliams

Social scientists have found that the fastest way to feel happiness is to practice gratitude.
‐‐ Chip Conley

Social Security, a critically important, great program which does serve as the cornerstone of support for senior citizens, now faces challenges that threaten its long-term stability and well-being. The facts are there. The facts are crystal clear.
‐‐ Bill Frist

Social Security and Medicare are necessary safety nets, but they are nearing insolvency as fewer pay in, more take out, and more take out more.
‐‐ Mark McKinnon

Social Security and Medicare represent promises made and we must keep these commitments.
‐‐ Tom Coburn

Social security, bank account, and credit card numbers aren't just data. In the wrong hands they can wipe out someone's life savings, wreck their credit and cause financial ruin.
‐‐ Melissa Bean

Social Security faces a long-term actuarial deficit, yes.
‐‐ Peter Orszag

Social Security faces financial problems down the road because of demographics.
‐‐ John S. Tanner

Social Security, for example - I'm 43. I've paid into the system. You know what? That money has been stolen from me. I know that my parents who are on Social Security - they've got to continue to receive it. They're dependent on it. It is their primary source of income.
‐‐ Joe Miller

Social Security got passed because John D. Rockefeller was sick of having to take money out of his profits to pay for his workers' pension funds. Why do that, when you can just let the government take money from the workers?
‐‐ Aaron Swartz

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

Social Security has never failed to pay promised benefits, and Democrats will fight to make sure that Republicans do not turn a guaranteed benefit into a guaranteed gamble.
‐‐ Nancy Pelosi

Social Security has not contributed to the deficit problem.
‐‐ Kent Conrad

Social Security has nothing to do with the deficit.
‐‐ Bernie Sanders

Social Security is a covenant that should not be broken.
‐‐ Emanuel Cleaver

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

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.
‐‐ Ginny Brown-Waite

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

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

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

Social Security is a tax.
‐‐ Todd Akin

Social Security is an extremely complicated program.
‐‐ John Thune

Social Security is an insurance policy. It's a terrible investment vehicle. Social Security has some great benefits. But it was never meant to be a savings plan. So we need to have a national debate. Should this 12.5 percent that we're contributing all go into a Social Security pool, or should half go into a mandatory savings plan?
‐‐ Laurence D. Fink

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

Social Security is based on a principle. It's based on the principle that you care about other people. You care whether the widow across town, a disabled widow, is going to be able to have food to eat.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

Social Security is fundamentally strong.
‐‐ Ted Deutch

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

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.
‐‐ Chris Christie

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.
‐‐ Jeff Bingaman

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

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

Social Security is not just the foundation of America's retirement dignity and security, it ensures the economic stability and strength of our families and our state's economy.
‐‐ Debbie Stabenow

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.
‐‐ Mark Foley

Social Security is something that we need to deal with, because people who are working today, who will retire in the future, people who are retired today, they have a right - and it's part of the compact that they can depend on their benefits. We should fix the long-term funding problem of Social Security because that's the right thing to do.
‐‐ Jacob Lew

Social Security is the only thing most Americans can count on to keep them out of poverty during retirement.
‐‐ Ted Deutch

Social Security is the very foundation of retirement security for millions of Americans.
‐‐ Sue Kelly

Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
‐‐ Ted Deutch

Social Security makes up a much larger share of total retirement income for unmarried women and minorities than it does for married couples, unmarried men and whites.
‐‐ Diane Watson

Social Security must be preserved and strengthened. But we need to be candid about the costs and willing to make the tough choices that real reform will require.
‐‐ Lindsey Graham

Social Security not only helps Americans enjoy a secure retirement, it has also kept millions of Americans out of poverty.
‐‐ Zoe Lofgren

Social Security Number Cards by themselves were never intended to be personal identity documents because they cannot confirm that a person presenting a card is actually the person whose name appears on the card.
‐‐ Ron Lewis

Social Security represents an $11 trillion unfunded obligation. And when I say unfunded obligation, I mean we have to come up with $11 trillion at some point to make the system whole.
‐‐ John W. Snow

Social Security's future has gotten worse, and each year we delay reform adds to the cost we are pushing off onto our children.
‐‐ John Goodman

Social Security's not the hard one to solve. Medicare, that is the gorilla in the room, and you've got to put all of it on the table.
‐‐ Joe Biden