Top 109 Pensions Quotes & Sayings

When Matt Bevin tried to bully teachers and illegally cut their pensions, I proudly stood with them to fight back and win.

One thing which frustrates me about state pensions is the disparity between EU countries.

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

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

People understand that any major reform to pensions is likely to create losers as well as winners.

In England pensions used to be given to aristocrats, because aristocrats had political influence, in order to corrupt them. Here pensions are given to the great democratic mass, because they have political power, to corrupt them.

Live long enough and you'll come into pensions, a lovely thing. Presents every month from people you didn't know cared.

You don't have to talk to me about pensions. I won't be around long enough to collect one.

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

Democrats may want working-class white Rust Belters to have good jobs at high wages with pensions and health benefits, but they can't make them vote that way.

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

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

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

As a member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, I will continue to work to bring resources, accountability and relief to our health care system.

Expanded gaming is a long-overdue and common sense way to make Kentucky more competitive and protect the hard-earned pensions of our teachers and first responders.

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

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.

I have decided to be a poet. My father said there isn't a suitable career structure for poets and no pensions and other boring things, but I am quite decided.

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.

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

I've never done any cross-party stuff. I've no interest in sitting down discussing pensions or whatever with Tories.

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.

Is this a fit time, said my father to himself, to talk of Pensions and Grenadiers?

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

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

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.

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

I don't think congressmen and senators ought to be getting pensions when nobody else does.

Government pensions are among the largest cost drivers for state and local governments.

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.

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

What are the characteristics of today's world so that one may recognize it by them?" It pays pensions and borrows money: credit and monuments.

I respect the state workers and I respect their unions, but we simply can't afford to pay benefits and pensions that are out of line with economic reality.

Let's also teach people about pensions and savings, insurance and the like. But if they aren't already familiar with numbers that won't be as effective as it might be.

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

Older homeless people are more likely to be women, because they don't have pensions and they are caretakers, so they withdraw from the workforce and end up having no pension if their husband leaves them, so the whole thing is just a nightmare.

Devolutionary reform will not provide a factory, a machine or jobs, build a school, train a doctor or put a pound on pensions.

Many old people receive pensions for no other reason, it seems to me, but as a compensation for having lived a long time ago.

Aside from the poor example it sets, the federal government enables reckless spending on public-employee pensions by offering hope of assistance from Washington if things get bad enough.

You get behind some of the numbers, like the underfunded pensions in the US, and I'm not sure people even understand how wrong their situation is.

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 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.

So virtuous are the programs said to be - pensions for the elderly, compensation for the unemployed, medicine for the sick, and assistance for the disabled - few dare ring the alarm of looming economic catastrophe that threatens to destabilize the civil society.

I do believe in pensions.

There's no pensions for old prize fighters.

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

I believe when hard-working citizens have earned their pension, it's wrong for Washington bureaucrats and politicians to take their pensions away.

They're making a song and dance because that serves their immediate interests. But what will happen tomorrow? They will have to pay salaries and pensions.

I titled my book "Revolution." And that is exactly what it is. France is experiencing a time of transformation - in education, on the labor market and in the pensions system. We're talking about a cultural revolution.

The NFL should be more worried about pensions than CTE.

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.

An independent Scotland could afford pensions full stop - after all, it is our taxes and national insurance contributions that fund them now.

Increased wages, higher pensions, more unemployment insurance, all are of no avail if the purchasing power of money falls faster.

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

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.

One of the big problems in America's economic polarization and shrinkage is that pensions can't be paid. So there are going to be defaults on pensions here, just like Europeans are insisting in rolling back pensions. You can look at Greece and Argentina as the future of America.

The old economy with careers and benefits and pensions is gone. There are scary implications to that.

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.

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

Ohioans, I think, in large numbers, have felt that the government has not been on their side in all of these issues: on pensions, on the cost of prescription drugs, on the health-care system generally, on jobs, on trade agreements.