I can think of no better person to protect and maintain the administration's commitment to Social Security.

Establishing an independent Social Security Administration will enhance its ability to meet this goal and provide 'world class service' to all Americans.

Today I am pleased to sign into law H.R. 4277, the 'Social Security Independence and Program Improvements Act of 1994.'

Don't mess with Social Security.

Let's be clear: protecting Social Security and Medicare is not an entitlement, it's a promise.

As long as I'm President, we're going to keep the social security system sound.

We're not going to tax social security income.

These U.S.-Swiss agreements are similar in objective to the U.S.-Italian social security agreements.

These bilateral agreements... provide for limited coordination between the United States and foreign social security systems.

These U.S.-F.R.G. Agreements are similar in objective to the U.S.-Italian social security agreements

Social security benefits are rights that have been earned by retired workers and their families.

Nearly 4 million widows and widowers will get larger social security benefits--the full 100 percent of what was payable to the individual's late husband or wife.

Millions of older Americans who live in poverty, along with the blind and the disabled, will be helped by a new Federal floor under their income--a monthly minimum of $130 for an individual and $195 for a couple.

It extends Medicare coverage for kidney transplants and renal dialysis--the cost of which is beyond most individuals--to workers under social security, and their dependents.

If the Congress approves my recommendations for reforming and expanding social security and other income maintenance programs, the income of older Americans would be increased by some $5.5 billion annually.

I will urge the Congress to enact welfare reform and higher social security benefits to meet this need.

One of my most vivid memories is of the day--in 1935, when I had not yet become a Member of Congress, but was working there--when I stood in the Speaker's office urging the Congressman I worked for to say 'yes' to the social security roll call when it was to be voted on a few minutes later in the House.

Far too many citizens on social security-more than one-third of the total-exist on incomes below the poverty line.