Political Quotes

“Well, we have got a dilemma in this Congress, and we have discussed this in other Congresses as well, and that is to make sure that we do not commingle over budget issues pools of money that we have available. We do not need to raid the Social Security Trust Fund and allow it to be used as a front for solving the debt situation of this country. On the other hand, we have got to preserve the integrity of the Social Security system as we know it for the future. We have got baby-boomers that are coming into the system. We have got a date certain when the system as we have known it cannot afford to fund itself the way we have been going. So I think the best thing that we can do now that we are making the significant progress that we are making and we are crawling out of our debt situation is to make sure that we do not use any surpluses at first for anything other than taking Social Security off budget.”