Presidential Statements

This section contains the full text of extended remarks by the Presidents on topics related to Social Security. For a selected brief quotation from each of the Presidents since FDR, see our section of Presidential Quotes.

Franklin D. Roosevelt	Harry S. Truman
Dwight D. Eisenhower	John F. Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson	Richard M. Nixon
Gerald R. Ford	Jimmy Carter
Ronald W. Reagan	George H. W. Bush
William J. Clinton	George W. Bush
Barack H. Obama