Joel Grey Quotes

I'd like to retire at 50 but I don't want to sell papers in the middle of London on a Zimmer.

I do believe in pensions.

The question isn't at what age I want to retire, it's at what income.

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

Many people focus on the 4 percent rule, which essentially says that as long as you withdraw no more than 4 percent from your retirement accounts each year, the money should last you 30 years.

People don't place their trust in government or company pension plans; they have to be self-reliant.

I have a fear of poverty in old age. I have this vision of myself living in a skip and eating cat food. It's because I'm freelance, and I've never had a proper job. I don't have a pension, and my savings are dwindling. I always thought someone would just come along and look after me.

Well, today people have to be self-reliant if they want a secure retirement income.

We need to take steps to strengthen and mend Social Security so that its promise of a secure retirement is just as real for seniors in the future as it is today.

They say the people most affected by the credit crunch are pensioners - well, let go of the handbag then, Nanna.

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.

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.

But with a rate of return of 1.6 percent or less, or a negative rate of return, our children and our grandchildren, if we do not make changes, will in fact not have a secure retirement. Indeed, they will not have the funds when they go to retire to even minimally get by.

For people who have for been putting their hard-earned money into the system for years, the president's idea would replace their safety net with a risky gamble with no assurance of a stable return of investment.

If a woman did not work and have the opportunity to save and invest on her own throughout her lifetime, she is often totally reliant on her family and Social Security for her retirement years.

I would not be opposed to devising a new system of pensions, in which one part was based on collective provision, but which also gave incentives for people to take out an additional, personal plan.

The do-it-yourself version of pensions is a flop, as many Americans have painfully learned.

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

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

If Britain is to have a stable, affordable pension system, people need to work longer, but we will reward their hard work with a decent state pension that will enable them to enjoy quality of life in their retirement.

Pension reforms, like investment advice and automatic enrollment, will strengthen the ability of Americans to save and invest for retirement.

Privatizing Social Security will take dollars out of young folks' pockets.

I'm dubious about having Social Security put into the stock market. I think that we have gotten very far away from the idea that there's something sacrosanct about retirement investments.

In other words, Social Security is every bit as insecure as the stock market.

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