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Social Security is fundamentally strong.

Social Security must be preserved and strengthened. But we need to be candid about the costs and willing to make the tough choices that real reform will require.

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

In other words, Social Security is every bit as insecure as the stock market.

Certainly Social Security needs to be reformed.

Social Security is the very foundation of retirement security for millions of Americans.

Social Security is not just the foundation of America's retirement dignity and security, it ensures the economic stability and strength of our families and our state's economy.

There is a lot of room for improvement in Social Security. We owe our children the most financially sound system possible. They will have paid into it their entire working lives. They deserve to be protected by it. for our children and grandchildren.

Social Security is a promise that we cannot and must not break.

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.