John Shaw: “I would like to close with a couple of quotes. The first is I would like to quote President Clinton at Georgetown…”

“I would like to close with a couple of quotes. The first is I would like to quote President Clinton at Georgetown University on February 9 of 1998. This is an exact quote. He said, ``So that all of these achievements, the economic achievements, our increasing social coherence and cohesion, our increasing efforts to reduce poverty among our youngest children, all of them are threatened by the looming fiscal crisis in Social Security.'' The looming fiscal crisis in Social Security. I could not express it better. President Bush, in this hall on February 2, just a couple of weeks ago said, ``One of America's most important institutions, a symbol of the trust between generations, is also in need of wise and effective reform. Social Security was a great moral success of the 20th century, and we must honor its great purposes in this new century. The system, however, on its current path is headed towards bankruptcy. And so we must join together to strengthen and save Social Security.'' We must join together to strengthen and save Social Security. We have been made a steward of this great country, the greatest country that has ever been on the face of this Earth, in keeping the promise of Social Security far into the future and giving millions of seniors the dignity, the peace that they so richly deserve.”