You cannot do anything about Social Security unless you do it in a bipartisan way. It's like one hand clapping. It doesn't work.
So, as President Reagan did with Tip O'Neill in 1983, you go to the table, you agree to the same set of numbers, you look at the challenge that we have before us, and you agree to a sustainable, bipartisan suggestion that would be acceptable to the American people.
....Your previous speaker said incorrectly that Social Security would be in the red in 2018. That's simply not true. The more money going out than coming in doesn't start until 2030. There's time for us to do this right.
Any — with the problem or without — any initiative that so many people depend on in our country and that takes up so many of our dollars is something that we should subject to scrutiny on a regular basis.
Nancy Pelosi, FOX News Sunday, March 6, 2005