I remain committed to making bipartisan progress on Social Security this year.

Eliminating the retirement earnings test above the normal retirement age is a first step toward Social Security reform.

If we agree to this simple step, we can extend the life of Social Security to the middle of the next century while also modernizing Social Security to reduce poverty among elderly women.

It means we have to save Social Security for the baby boom generation.

We have an historic opportunity to protect and strengthen Social Security, securing it for future generations of retirees.

Set aside most of the surplus for Social Security and Medicare.

By saving most of the surplus for Medicare and Social Security, we can also pay off all our publicly held debt by the year 2015.

Every responsible analyst of Medicare says there are just so many people drawing and so few people paying in.

I want to use the bulk of the surplus to save Social Security.

If we solve everything, if we reached an agreement on Social Security, Medicare, if we committed to pay the debt off in 15 years, think of all the things that would still be there for them to disagree about.

Keeping the economy strong by paying the debt off and saving Medicare and Social Security, I think, are the most important things we can do.

Social Security taxes should be saved for Social Security, period.

We should devote 62 percent of the surplus for the next 15 years to saving Social Security.

Social Security is not just a retirement program; it's an insurance program.

Half the seniors in this country would be in poverty today if it weren't for Social Security.

We should reform Social Security to preserve its best characteristics and make sure it will survive into the 21st century.

We must reform Social Security and Medicare so that it will do what it needs to do to hold our society together and provide for dignity in old age.

Don't you dare spend that surplus until we save the Social Security system for the next generation.