Lack of adequate private health insurance options is a disincentive to leave Social Security programs for work.

First, we have to strengthen and protect the guarantee of Social Security for the 21st century.

Today Social Security is sound.

Today, 44 million Americans depend on Social Security.

Social Security must provide a benefit people can count on.

I want a guaranteed benefit.

We should set aside every penny of any surplus until we save Social Security first.

Anything we do to strengthen Social Security now must maintain our hard-won fiscal discipline.

Social Security has been far more than an ID number on a tax form.

Social Security is responsible for lifting about half the American senior population out of poverty.

We must act and act now to save Social Security.

The idea behind Social Security is, number one, even though your retirement may be a long way off, you can know that it's going to be there for you.

Social Security actually is responsible for keeping about half of our senior citizens out of poverty.

I have a moral obligation now, while I'm still in office, to try to figure out how to preserve Social Security, how to preserve Medicare.

The key on this is not to reduce Social Security benefits.

I believe we can reduce the deficit without compromising our commitment to education and to our children and without undermining our commitment to our seniors in Social Security and basic Medicare needs.

The balanced budget amendment has been defeated because Republicans could not provide enough Democratic Senators with the simple guarantee that Social Security would be protected in any balanced budget amendment procedures.

People deserve a pension system that they rely on.