Quotations from Speaker Newt Gingrich: on Social Security


Newt Gingrich: Change how we pay for retirement but don't abolish system

In no way, under any circumstances, do I talk about abolishing Social Security. I have said it is better for us to pay a tax through a sales tax than through a tax on workers, so that everybody would pay in. (This is) a change in the way you pay for it. It's not a new tax. It's a replacement of the current anti-labor, anti-work tax.
--Douglas County (Ga.) Sentinel. May 10, 1988

Now, let me point out, the one Government program people actually seem to like is Social Security. This is the one program also, by the way, which has a very tiny bureaucracy. We send out more Social Security checks with fewer civil servants than almost any other program in the Government. So which program do our friends in the Democratic administration want to hit? Social Security.
--Congressional Record. February 2, 1993

Source: Quotations from Speaker Newt, by A.&P. Bernstein, p.134-5 Jan 1, 1995

  • The above quotations are from Quotations from Speaker Newt
    The Little Red, White and Blue Book of the Republican Revolution
    by Newt Gingrich and Amy D. Bernstein.
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