Pension Benefits Quotes

To retire is to die.

After World War II, there were a lot of pension funds in Europe that were fully funded, but they were pressured to hold a lot of government debt. There was a lot of inflation, and the value of all those assets fell. Those pension funds couldn't honor their promises to the people.

When I was young, many people worked for a company with a pension plan that covered them for as long as they lived. If they didn't have a pension plan, they could count on Social Security and Medicare.

As an improvement in our military establishment, it will deserve the consideration of Congress whether a corps of invalids might not be so organized and employed as at once to aid in the support of meritorious individuals excluded by age or infirmities from the existing establishment, and to procure to the public the benefit of their stationary services and of their exemplary discipline.

We need to strengthen and save Social Security for today's workers. If we don't act now, this system, born out of the New Deal, will become a bad deal.

I'll never retire.

I haven't thought of retirement yet, but when I stop enjoying the game or when injuries force me, I will quit.

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

I have a statement on the Social Security. A lot of people approaching that age have either already retired on pensions or have made irreversible plans to retire very soon... I consider it a breach of faith to renege on that promise. It is a rotten thing to do.

I've got no idea when I am going to retire. Whenever they pick me up and take me to the funeral home, I guess.

Careful economic research has shown public-sector workers receive a level of compensation, pension benefits, and retiree health coverage in excess of what comparable workers in the private sector enjoy. In some instances, the total premium can be 30 percent or higher.

I'm 78, I'm on my pension in Ireland, and all that good stuff.

I will never, ever balance a budget on the backs of our seniors.

The 1935 Social Security Act established 65 as the age of eligibility for payouts. But welfare state politics quickly becomes a bidding war, enriching the menu of benefits, so in 1956 Congress entitled women to collect benefits at 62, extending the entitlement to men in 1961.

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

Even though a lot of people keep trying to get me to retire, I won't.

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

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

At the end of my life, I was told to vote for it for pensioners; I' m not in favour of means tests for pensioners or anybody.

I should really be retired. But then you find out how much you get in retirement. I don't know how you make it. It's really rough!

To stabilize the nation's public-employee pension systems and to prevent federal taxpayers from being billed for failed pension funds, I have introduced the Public Employee Pension Transparency Act in Congress.

Social Security is the very foundation of retirement security for millions of Americans.

We all retire one day. If we want to, if we don't want to.

We need, in effect, to make the phantom 'lock-boxes' around the trust fund real.

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.