Retirees Quotes

People think retiring is fun. Well, maybe, but if you have a certain kind of fire inside, there is no end in sight.

On the campaign trail, I have the opportunity to meet people from all walks of life - from residents at a battered women's shelter to mentally handicap children to retirees - and learn about their lives and struggles.

In a few decades, the U. S. economy will increasingly rest on the shoulders of a largely non-white, heavily Latino work force providing services and care to millions of white retirees.

When our career is over, when we retire and the basketball stops bouncing, we still have to find something else to do.

The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.

More retirees, longer life expectancy, larger benefits, and fewer workers - these trends have meant substantial increases in the payroll tax. Since the social security program began, the payroll tax has increased more than 500 percent.

My experience is, people who retire die sooner than they should have.

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

When some people retire, it's going to be mighty hard to be able to tell the difference.

If we do not act now to strengthen Social Security, the system that so many depend upon today will be unable to meet its promises to tomorrow's retirees, and it will burden our children and grandchildren with exhaustive taxes.

Today there are about 40 million retirees receiving benefits; by the time all the baby boomers have retired, there will be more than 72 million retirees drawing Social Security benefits.

Some people are ok with doing nothing all day after they retire, but then some people if they had nothing to do would go mad and start banging their heads against a wall.

The worst letters come from retired high school English teachers. They will literally take a book and pick it to pieces and send me 14 pages of notes.

I stand with the millions of seniors and working people who depend on Social Security and who expect the money they put in to be there for them when they retire.

In America, it has been proven that the bulk of spending money is in the hands of women between 60 and 80, so it's so stupid. The people who do have the time and money to shop are either retired or empty-nesters.

It's a great job for a retired person. They feel a little important, get out of the house.

Social security has enabled people to retire with dignity and overwhelmingly not be in poverty. We have to keep it solvent.

As the baby boomers like me are retiring and getting ready to retire, they will spend whatever it takes - and they're the wealthiest generation in our country - to make themselves live an enjoyable life in their retirement years.

Those who are in our military and now have retired or they left the service actually respect candor. And they respect those that speak without trying to politicize who they are.

It's very likely that graduates, current employees and retirees have some wonderful pieces of Deer Park history in their closets or garages.

Let's find those areas where modest and reasonable tax cuts will have the biggest positive impact on our economy, and which will improve the lives of those who need it most: working families, retirees, and small business owners.

People retire to do what I do every day.

The retirement financial crisis will affect far more people than baby boomers, and certainly it will affect their children. Most of the retirees and near-retirees with whom we talked, said that they were extremely reluctant to have to depend on their children financially, or to think of moving in with their children. But the mere fact that they were discussing those issues indicates that some of them have already figured out that that is what lies ahead for them.

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