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" Social Security is something that we need to deal with, because people who are working today, who will retire in the future, people who are retired today, they have a right - and it's part of the compact that they can depend on their benefits. We should fix the long-term funding problem of Social Security because that's the right thing to do. "

Jacob Lew

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People

" There is a very serious fiscal-policy question of, 'Are we running our overall fiscal policy such that we as a government can pay our bills?' "

" If you don't define the problem you'll never reach a painful solution. "

" If you have a student who graduates from college and they don't have a job, they are now able to stay on their family health plan. "

" Congress should get the job done. "

" The budget is not just a collection of numbers, but an expression of our values and aspirations. "

" We have to reduce the burden placed on our economy by years of deficits and debt. "

" There's a lot of trust being built up. I think we have a lot of work ahead of us. "

Jacob Lew

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Work

" It's going to be true that anything that reduces the federal deficit will have somebody unhappy. "

" Most Americans want health insurance. "

" Every president since George Washington has taken executive privilege seriously. Every Republican president has. "

" The reason to deal with Social Security is that it is a system where we have a tradition and history of making sure it is solidly funded for 75 years. At the moment, we look out and we see it is solidly funded until 2037. "

" In the budget, the president will call for a five-year freeze on discretionary spending other than for national security. This will reduce the deficit by more than $400 billion over the next decade and bring this category of spending to the lowest share of our economy since Dwight Eisenhower was president. "

" The transition from tyranny to democracy is very hard. The Syrian people have to handle this in a way that works in Syria. And the brutality of the Assad regime is unacceptable. "

" I think that for the next short period of time, our No. 1 priority is Congress needs to do its work and extend the payroll tax cut. "

" If you look at the cost of providing health insurance, it actually doesn't cost more to provide a plan with contraceptive coverage than it does without. "

Jacob Lew

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You

" We cannot win the future, expand the economy and spur job creation if we are saddled with increasingly growing deficits. That is why the president's budget is a comprehensive and responsible plan that will put us on a path toward fiscal sustainability in the next few years - a down payment toward tackling our challenges in the long term. "

" Businesses make decisions based on what they are seeing in their order books. "

" I think the thing that the American people want is for the divisive debate on health care to stop. "

" Taxpayers can go online and find out more about the way their government works than ever before. "

Jacob Lew

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Government

" We obviously would like to get unemployment as low as we possibly can. "

" It is time for the general fund to pay the Social Security fund back. "

" I think there is a shared sense of urgency in Washington on fiscal issues. "

" I can't speak to the differences within the Catholic Church. "