We must explain the truth: There is no free lunch.

We must take the time to do what needs to be done now, what is right, instead of passing a bad bill.

President Bush has consistently used rhetoric, and that is not convincing given his past record.

A Congressional Budget Office report released as recent as June 2004 says the system will be able to pay full benefits until 2052, and 80 percent after that.

Our political leaders must be honest and forthcoming with data that will allow citizens to use facts and figures to judge for themselves what state Social Security is in.

The president's claim that Social Security is going broke is misleading at best. The sky is not falling, although there is no doubt that the system needs to be strengthened.

If Congress doesn't raise taxes, you cannot get a private investment account without forgoing a portion, possibly all, of your guaranteed benefit check.

There is a need for Social Security reform to ensure its stability, and Congress must act.

Social Security has been effective for 70 years; prior predictions of its demise have been totally overstated.

To allow all U.S. workers to put part of their earnings into private investment accounts would definitely erode the Social Security system and cause uncertainty for new investors.

Almost half of all Latinas currently on Social Security rely exclusively on their benefit check in retirement.

That’s when I first learned that it wasn’t enough to just do your job, you had to have an interest in it, even a passion for it.

Not everything you're good at is what you're called to do.

Running, the music flew into him, became the wind that pushed back his hair and the slap of his own feet on the pavement.

No one can endure his own solitude.

The nastiness of women [in the 14th century] was generally perceived at the close of life when a man began to worry about hell, and his sexual desire in any case fading.

If you are being shuffled around, then you should feel shuffled around.

Artists thrive off each other, and when you see other people doing cool stuff, it inspires you to do cool stuff.

In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time.

Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise men; for that wise men avoided the faults of fools, but that fools would not imitate the good examples of wise men.

If we look at history, we will see that regimes which persecute [their people] do not remain standing.