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We really need to get control over Social Security numbers. My children's generation, they're past it. But their children should be able to have a number that is secure.

Social Security Number Cards by themselves were never intended to be personal identity documents because they cannot confirm that a person presenting a card is actually the person whose name appears on the card.

Social Security is an extremely complicated program.

There is a way for the IRS to be able to have a double check to make sure individuals don't file on your Social Security number early and try to get a tax return and make it chaotic for you to file your own taxes. That's not been done.

I don't need to worry about identity theft because no one wants to be me.

No matter how you cut it, this real debate on personal accounts is about the legitimacy of Social Security; it's not about the solvency of Social Security.

Social security, bank account, and credit card numbers aren't just data. In the wrong hands they can wipe out someone's life savings, wreck their credit and cause financial ruin.

If you can't even acknowledge that you have to fix Social Security, that's not a very good starting point.

Never once have I thought that Social Security would be something that would ever be available to me.