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However, the Administration's plan to privatize Social Security will undermine retirement security for all Americans by cutting guaranteed benefits by more than 40 percent, and risky private accounts won't make up for the loss of benefits for millions of Americans.

Our constituents paid into Social Security, and they want it paid back to them when they retire. Cutting Social Security benefits that Americans have earned should always be a last resort.

The Bush Administration claims there is a Social Security crisis only to distract Americans from its serious mismanagement of the federal budget.

But there is a need to explore ways we can preserve the promise of Social Security for future generations.

President Bush is manufacturing a crisis by suggesting that Social Security is in imminent danger. It is not.

The effort to try to present the Social Security program as if it's a major problem, that's just a hidden way of trying to undermine and destroy it.

I was very concerned that President Bush is still trying to frighten or scare the American people with respect to the condition of the Social Security system.

Social Security is a plan that actually was designed in a much different time, in a different era, and with a different set of American demographics in mind.

We should stop having a conversation about cutting Social Security a little bit or a lot.

The White House has embarked on a mission to convince the people of our country that Social Security is in dire need of drastic change in order to save it for all workers.