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Social Security not only helps Americans enjoy a secure retirement, it has also kept millions of Americans out of poverty.

Quotes by Zoe Lofgren

My first job after my retirement from baseball was as a narrator for the Eastman Philharmonica.

Quotes by Willie Stargell

The great increase in longevity has produced a surge in the desire to accumulate assets for retirement. It has outpaced the ability of the private sector to produce assets, so we need a larger government debt.

Quotes by William Vickrey

Obviously, people with low or even moderate incomes could not afford such savings rates, and even diligent savings from their low wages would not be enough to pay for either retirement or healthcare.

Quotes by William Greider

We owe our public servants, from school teachers to state employees, a sustainable and well-funded retirement that they can count on.

Quotes by Walker Stapleton

The retirement system that is in place for members of Congress and other federal workers features what is known as the Federal Employment Retirement Plan.

Quotes by Virgil Goode

Those who want to cut Social Security are prepared to take hostages, manufacture crises, and use scare tactics to undermine the retirement security of Americans.

Quotes by Ted Deutch

Americans are not saving enough for retirement.

Quotes by Tammy Baldwin

I don't believe in retirement.

Quotes by Stuart Rose

My retirement, back in 1976, began as a one-year boycott to challenge the media on that question. I refused to return until the media, and radio stations in particular, got a hold on identifiably Canadian songs.

Quotes by Stompin' Tom Connors

The highest-income Americans don't need tax-free health insurance, mortgage interest deductions or deferred taxation on retirement funds.

Quotes by Steven Rattner

I always likened retirement to falling off a cliff, and then you have to kind of brush yourself off.

Quotes by Steve Young

I believe that social security should be a universal retirement guarantee and not means tested.

Quotes by Steve Israel

The President and I agree that Social Security needs to be preserved so that we can ensure that all Americans receive the retirement benefits they've been promised. But we disagree as to how best to fix the system.

Quotes by Steve Israel

Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.

Quotes by Simone de Beauvoir

It is a characteristic of potentates that they don't succumb to peaceful retirement. Instead, they hold power in their hoary fists as judgment and grip weaken, destroying any successors except family members.

Quotes by Simon Sebag Montefiore

The current institutionally provided retirement plans will not cover people's needs upon retirement.

Quotes by Scott Cook

A whole generation of Americans will retire in poverty instead of prosperity, because they simply are not preparing for retirement now.

Quotes by Scott Cook

Retirement security is often compared to a three-legged stool supported by Social Security, employer-provided pension funds, and private savings.

Quotes by Sander Levin

I'm conscious that there's only a limited amount that I'll get done before I get shuffled into retirement, but I certainly have no desire to retire.

Quotes by Sam Neill

No, I don't belong to a retirement community.

Quotes by Sally Kellerman

Since Social Security faces a large gap between what it promises younger workers and what it can afford to pay them, private savings will likely need to play a larger role in retirement planning for younger workers.

Quotes by Ron Lewis

A lot of the money in the stock market is really our national retirement plan, for better or worse.

Quotes by Ron Chernow

Payroll savings plans are vital because they are essentially the only way that middle-class Americans reliably save for retirement.

Quotes by Richard Thaler

When employees are first eligible for a retirement savings plan, they should be enrolled unless they choose to opt out.

Quotes by Richard Thaler

Unlike every other retirement vehicle, such as IRAs and 401(k)s, you receive a tax deduction for making contributions to your HSA but don't have to pay income taxes on withdrawals.

Quotes by Paul Zane Pilzer

So, in Europe, they're cutting people's retirement and health benefits. And that's what we want to avoid from happening. They're raising taxes, entering a recession. That's the kind of economic program that President Obama has put in place.

Quotes by Paul Ryan

Countries get one chance in history of putting into place a savings retirement scheme on the scale of the Australian superannuation system.

Quotes by Paul Keating

I only work every couple of years. I go into retirement between films.

Quotes by Paul Hogan

The main purpose of Social Security is to redistribute wealth, to make an increasingly large number of Americans dependent on government for their basic needs in their retirement years.

Quotes by Neal Boortz

Retirement has been wonderful.

Quotes by Michelle McCool

I grew up in a retirement community in Florida.

Quotes by Megan Boone

IRAs are intended for retirement.

Quotes by Max Baucus

I never had the sense that there was an end: that there was a retirement or that there was a jackpot.

Quotes by Leonard Cohen

Discriminatory wage practices undermine women's ability to provide for their families and survive on a decent retirement income.

Quotes by Kirsten Gillibrand

I'm so lucky to have a career in my fifties. And to still have the desire to do it. I don't think about retirement.

Quotes by Kim Cattrall

Americans used to be able to depend on their jobs to provide a stable retirement.

Quotes by Keith Ellison

I want that fifth championship. If that does not present itself, then I'm closer to retirement.

Quotes by Juan Manuel Marquez

Germany, I think, was first to substitute a Social Security program for its elderly based on this premise, that is, that we would tax workers to pay retirement benefits for those retired.

Quotes by John Shadegg

The pain of retirement means loss.

Quotes by John Murray

Retirement is purgatory for the former sports star. The world outside organized sports is unforgiving.

Quotes by John Gregory Dunne

President Roosevelt, the author of Social Security, was the first to suggest that, in order to provide for the country's retirement needs, Social Security would need to be supplemented by personal savings accounts.

Quotes by John Doolittle

I favor every worker having access to a retirement savings account, and there are various options for doing this. I do support states implementing their own plans, and I expect them to play an important role in increasing retirement savings for young professionals especially.

Quotes by Joe Sestak

Retirement is fatal. Luckily, in my profession, you don't have to retire.

Quotes by Joan Hickson

I believe in financial retirement. I don't necessarily believe in physical retirement.

Quotes by Jerry Doyle

A budget should be judged by whether it creates a foundation for the success of American working families striving to buy a house, or to send their kids to college, or to save a little for retirement and, if they're lucky, a vacation.

Quotes by Jeff Merkley

Wills are trumped by legal titles to real estate or beneficiary designations on financial accounts, retirement plans and insurance policies.

Quotes by Jean Chatzky

Every American must be guaranteed dignity and independence in their retirement.

Quotes by Jan Schakowsky

The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or the will to enforce significant change.

Quotes by J. G. Ballard

The young come in many guises: vigorous and passionate, vindictive and mean-spirited. And not every person over 65 is dozing in a retirement home.

Quotes by Howard Jacobson

There's a lot we can do to improve American's retirement security, but it's wrong to replace the guaranteed benefit that Americans have earned with a guaranteed benefit cut of forty percent or more.

Quotes by Harry Reid

Spending should be transparent. All spending by the Pentagon should be online. Every check. Exceptions should be made for legitimate national security issues. But military and civilian pay and retirement benefits are not state secrets. This has already been done in many state governments.

Quotes by Grover Norquist

I'm happy in retirement.

Quotes by Greg Rusedski

There's nothing in the Bible that talks about retirement.

Quotes by Greg Gianforte

Because Social Security is specifically designed to boost the retirement income of low earners with a progressive benefit formula, the program has played an enormous and necessary role in keeping Latinas out of poverty.

Quotes by Grace Napolitano

Almost half of all Latinas currently on Social Security rely exclusively on their benefit check in retirement.

Quotes by Grace Napolitano

I respect public employees and school teachers. They deserve a secure retirement.

Quotes by Gina Raimondo

During my four years as treasurer, we restructured our pension system, cutting the state's unfunded liability almost by half and putting our retirement system on stronger footing.

Quotes by Gina Raimondo

Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.

Quotes by George Burns

Who knows whether in retirement I shall be tempted to the last infirmity of mundane minds, which is to write a book.

Quotes by Geoffrey Fisher

The retirement age needs to be raised. A portion of Social Security ought to be privatized, if not all. And there probably needs to be some means testing. It's a Ponzi scheme that's not sustainable.

Quotes by Gary Johnson

It's amazing, it doesn't feel like it has been 10 years since retirement.

Quotes by Gabriela Sabatini

I have a really good relationship with Bayern. I might become a coach after retirement, but with the youth teams.

Quotes by Franck Ribery

I cannot imagine not working. I don't understand the word 'retirement.'

Quotes by F. Murray Abraham

Retirement from work has depressed many a man and hastened his death.

Quotes by Ezra Taft Benson

401k savings accounts have become so important in the landscape of retirement planning that their security and expansion became a top priority in formulating and implementing the Pension Protection Act of 2006 that was enacted during my tenure as the U.S. Secretary of Labor.

Quotes by Elaine Chao

I have to think about the possible ramifications of an early retirement.

Quotes by Ehud Olmert

No retirement system in the world is as broken as ours.

Quotes by Eduardo Bhatia

I'm always announcing my retirement. I'm still not retired.

Quotes by Dick Van Dyke

Social Security makes up a much larger share of total retirement income for unmarried women and minorities than it does for married couples, unmarried men and whites.

Quotes by Diane Watson

The rolling contract was designed to specifically take away some of that retirement talk and retirement issue.

Quotes by David Gill

I've enjoyed my retirement.

Quotes by Darrell Royal

I'm having a really hard time with this retirement thing and not having wrestling.

Quotes by Daniel Bryan

The promise of Social Security was reflected in President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's inter-generational compact that rewards hard work and provides retirement security.

Quotes by Christine Pelosi

I don't disagree with ending Congress' retirement program. I'm a governor; I don't have a retirement program in my state, and I don't disagree with that.

Quotes by Chris Christie

In surveys, many borrowers say reverse mortgages have improved their lives and provided money they needed for retirement.

Quotes by Charles Duhigg

You can never have the comeback if you don't have the retirement.

Quotes by Chael Sonnen

For now I'm building up stories for the retirement home!

Quotes by Carol Vorderman

Our government works should be treated fairly and appropriately; they should have a decent retirement, but not a gold-plated system where they can retire multimillionaires in their 50s.

Quotes by Bruce Rauner

Our government workers should be treated fairly and appropriately. They should have a decent retirement, but not a gold-plated system where they can retire multimillionaires in their 50s.

Quotes by Bruce Rauner

Raising the age of Social Security retirement is not the answer. For so many jobs that are back-breaking jobs, physically burdensome jobs, we're raising the age already to 67. These people are going to struggle to get to that point.

Quotes by Brad Schneider

Anyone with a pension or retirement is an investor in the stock market.

Quotes by Brad Katsuyama

I'm not philosophically opposed to raising the retirement age... I accept the fact that I may have to raise my retirement age for that.

Quotes by Bill Flores

Voters should be assured that I absolutely do not support raising the retirement age for Social Security.

Quotes by Bill Flores

I am philosophically opposed to raising the retirement age. I misspoke and said I was not philosophically opposed.

Quotes by Bill Flores

Retirement is not in my vocabulary. They aren't going to get rid of me that way.

Quotes by Betty White

Maybe forced retirement isn't necessary after all.

Quotes by Ben Stiller

We know what's in our Cheerios and in our retirement accounts because the law requires disclosure.

Quotes by Barton Gellman

I like retirement.

Quotes by Barry Sanders

Our seniors' retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market.

Quotes by Barbara Mikulski

I was a stock broker once. I think there is an absolute place for market investments. But they should never be the basis of one's retirement. They should be an additional piece on top of a basic, secure, guaranteed retirement benefit.

Quotes by Barbara Boxer

Especially if you're over 40, shortening the term of your loan to pay it off sooner could make you mortgage-free in retirement.

Quotes by Barbara Corcoran

The decision to incentivise savings for pension funds augurs well for infrastructure financing and retirement planning.

Quotes by Arundhati Bhattacharya

I am going to retire, and it is going to be a permanent retirement.

Quotes by Art Bell

In a time when my entire family had already tapped into their retirement savings and taken out second mortgages, we were grateful when any supporters, including Trump, donated to my defense and spoke out about my innocence.

Quotes by Amanda Knox

At some point, it comes to an end regardless, however it comes, whether it is retirement or injury; at some point, it comes to an end.

Quotes by Allen Iverson

I guess I don't really believe in retirement. I believe in shorter days and maybe in weekends!

Quotes by Alice Waters

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