Top 35 Pensions Quotes

I spent a lot of time writing about tax and pensions and mortgages.

The Europeans waited so long that they are impacting people who depend on their pensions. We are still early enough to fix it for the next generation. A few states have started scaling back their programs, while others have come hat in hand for billion-dollar federal bailouts.

I’ve had two pensions each that have gone down by 50%.

I have this cozy house here and I get three pensions from the States. I’ve done nicely.

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

I think I’d work on making sure that Canadians have opportunities to find good jobs, to grow, to gain stability in terms of pensions. The reality is that Canadians don’t feel that our economy is working for us.

A lot of my friends were retiring from the newspaper business, and the newspaper pensions are not enormous.

If you go to the U.S., you’ve got a huge market, cheap energy, good skills, and pensions are a sensible cost.

While Matt Bevin insults and bullies educators, I care about showing our teachers respect, protecting their pensions, and making public education a top priority.

If you look at things that really affect people’s lives – sport, the arts, charities – they were always at the back of the queue for government money – health, social security, defence, pensions were all way ahead. And each of those areas – sports, the arts, the lottery – got relatively petty cash from the government.

The country will also need ‘new forms of social welfare’ instead of its current system which is excessively centred on pensions.

Empirical evidence collected and analyzed by political scientists demonstrates that judicial pensions are the most important factor in a Justice’s decision to retire, far more important than the party of the President or which political party has control of the Senate.

There is a valid nationwide sentiment of concern over public pensions, and poor funding ratios are viewed negatively by financial markets.

Democrats must adopt a progressive economic message that focuses on large, direct infrastructure investments, affordable health care, portable pensions, and public-private investments that promote advanced manufacturing.

To see poor people, their benefits being cut, to see pensions of Americans who have worked like my father, all their lives, and taken away, to see the rich just accumulating more and more wealth. I mean, it seems to me that there has to be a point where you have to say, ‘No, this has to stop.’

It wasn’t until after college that I started writing. I had just applied randomly for jobs in the media and got one on a magazine called ‘Pensions World.’ So I was writing for a living there and that’s when I started my first book.

I do believe in pensions.

Public employee unions, in their defense, say politicians have unfairly made them into simplistic bogeymen, responsible for problems that have myriad causes. Not all government workers receive generous pensions, they note.

There are tons of examples of U.K. and European mistakes. A classic one is pensions. That’s obviously not an America-specific thing. The British and European economies are suffering under the weight of what is to come. The next great Ponzi scheme after Madoff is probably pensions.

We need to cut the pensions and annuities of parliamentarians, regional councilors, and employees of constitutional bodies.

If we have political forces in the Bundestag, and in parts of the coalition, who… say they want to spend money on pensions, not weapons. Then I say, be honest and say you don’t want a German army.

Remember our proud history of social justice, universal health care, public pensions and making sure no one is left behind. Let’s continue to move forward.

Where public pensions are concerned, many jurisdictions are running out of road.

Government pensions, built into law and mostly protected from stock market vagaries, are the envy of the private sector.

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.

We tapped into the abandoned mine land fund to pay for pensions, and that money was to clean up the mines, not make up the difference of what the companies stole from workers.

When minimum living wages, bargaining for fair wages, pensions, and job security are denied in too many countries, it is not rocket science to understand the drivers of inequality.

I think there should be a law that would allow the Oireachtas to take pensions away from people. That would go for corrupt politicians; it would go for public servants who failed miserably or were incompetent.

There’s no pensions for old prize fighters.

In some cases, managers and employees have secured pensions beyond their original base salary. It is wrong, the people doing it know it’s wrong, and we have to put an end to it.

By ending congressional taxpayer-funded pensions, we will take one more step toward draining the swamp in Washington.

We should address the issues for nonprofits and pensions and why they need to invest in these offshore funds.

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.

I have written to Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, asking him to consider ‘staggered office timings’ for government offices, which will help in decongesting road traffic during peak hours.

I’m committed to fully funding pensions for our law enforcement officials and fighting for policies that will help them get ahead and keep our communities safe.