Kim Reynolds Quotes

I want to be able to look my daughter's teacher in the eye and say, 'Your pension will be there.' I need to know that her pension will match up with a promise we can keep.

Our government makes the simple promise of a secure retirement to every American who works for many years and contributes to our retirement benefit system.

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.

A pension is nothing more than deferred compensation.

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.

I can guarantee you this, that more pension and benefit reforms which I will consider arbitration reform to be one of them, are things that when they come to my desk, they will be signed.

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 President's proposed privatization plan would jeopardize that security by cutting guaranteed benefits for future retirees and endangering the benefits of current retirees, people with disabilities, and children who have lost a parent.

The NFL pension is the worst in the world of business. It's an embarrassment.

We can't be paying pensions to the next generation of federal workers when hardly anyone in the private sector gets them.

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

Working for company X and having a substantial portion of your retirement plan in company X is simply exposing yourself to too much risk, because the company is both your employer and the source of your retirement income. So if something goes wrong, you lose both your job and your retirement plan.

Corporations are reneging on pension obligations. Social Security is under attack.

From the employees' standpoint, in 1935, Social Security was a big gamble. Employees would be required to participate in the program, contributing a percentage of their income for their entire adult working life.

The U.K. is one of the few places in the world that has final salary pensions.

Social Security is an insurance policy. It's a terrible investment vehicle. Social Security has some great benefits. But it was never meant to be a savings plan. So we need to have a national debate. Should this 12.5 percent that we're contributing all go into a Social Security pool, or should half go into a mandatory savings plan?

I agree that we must expand opportunities for retirement saving, but we must not undermine this worthy effort with a flawed privatization scheme that takes the 'security' out of Social Security.

The fine print in the President's Social Security proposal is that all present and future workers under age 55 will have their promised retirement benefits cut.

Many seniors understand that Social Security is social insurance as opposed to a program where we put money aside for our own retirement. But most elderly individuals think they're getting their money back. So it isn't selfishness as much as a misunderstanding.

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

Your retirement comes before your children's tuition. That's because there's no financial aid for retirement, and there's still a good deal available for college.

I never sought to privatize Social Security.

I had a pension that I was paying into for 27 years... It's now worth less than a Herman Cain endorsement.

However, the Administration's plan to privatize Social Security will undermine retirement security for all Americans by cutting guaranteed benefits by more than 40 percent, and risky private accounts won't make up for the loss of benefits for millions of Americans.

We have so many people retiring that we do not have enough people paying into the system to be able to provide the benefits for those collecting those benefits.