"What's at stake here? What's at stake here is the nation's leading insurance program and the nation's leading anti-poverty program."
"Without this program and the direction that we are headed in, by 2035 we would find ourselves in a situation where people who have earned $50,000 in income throughout their lives would face a 20 perce..."
"It is our responsibility to make sure that the program is actuarially sound."
"This has also become the civil rights issue of the day."
"Now it is time for us to all come together and work collaboratively, so that we save this program."
"Part of what we hope to do is to make sure that we both create a new floor for Social Security, so that especially women who, because they are the primary caregivers, and today with 74 percent of them..."
"Social Security has never missed a payment."
"It is time for us to act."
"I couldn't agree more with you."
"I think what people don't like about the program is how we pay for it."
"Our primary responsibility is Social Security."
"the issue is can we look in the mirror and say, 'Hey, listen, if we raise the age, and that is a 7 percent cut to somebody, how do they handle it?'"