Political Quotes

“I thank you for the question, my friend and my chairwoman. I did talk about this, but it is so worth repeating. At some point in the night, we covered Social Security, and we read story after story after story of senior citizens who are frightened and afraid that the President of the United States will stand at the joint address and attack Social Security and make fun of it with lie after lie after lie about millions and millions of people getting fraudulent checks when the people who do the fact-checking and even the Social Security folks themselves say that it is a minuscule number of people getting checks and usually it is an overpayment. But they didn't stop there. Elon Musk called it a Ponzi scheme. The richest man in the world and the most powerful man in the world-- himself a billionaire--are attacking the program that millions and millions of our senior citizens rely on. I read letters from people who said: Don't forget about the mental or disabled who rely on SSI. They were begging us to remember and speak their names and tell their stories. There is a lot of fear, a lot of terror, a lot of insecurity. We spoke about this on the floor, that the benefits are already being cut. What do I mean by that? Well, if you are cutting Social Security offices--as one of our colleagues said from New Hampshire--in a rural area, you are forcing people to have to drive 100 miles if they have a problem.…”