Kent Conrad: “I would say to you, as I looked at this, I saw Social Security as the bedrock.”

The one thing I know for sure is that what is happening now is not working.

I would say personally I would not go to a company advising me on wealth management that did not have it because I think whoever is advising me ought to have as their highest responsibility to be giving me advice that is in my interest.

The surviving spouse provisions are especially important with regard to offsetting some of the unfairness that exists elsewhere.

if we are going to make this whole system solvent, it is going to take everybody to give a little bit.