Political Quotes

“I hope that that is the option that this Congress pursues and pursues aggressively, because if we begin in 1999 to take a look, a serious look at reform, and if we implement reform in this Congress, that gives us, then, you know, we have a time window then of 14 or 15 years to get ready before we hit that wall in 2014. That is a much better option than the number two, which is raising taxes. Or we end up cutting a bunch of services in the other area of the government, but I do not think that will ever happen, or to change the fundamental structure of social security by delaying the retirement age or cutting benefits and those types of things. So the opportunity, and really, the thing that we have to take a look at in this Congress is reforming social security along the lines that our colleague is developing a plan on, but that is the mandate that is in front of us.”