Pension Quotes - Page 7

• We cannot continue. Our pension costs and health care costs for our employees are going to bankrupt this city.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Health, Cities, Cost

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• Marriage is like retiring as a bachelor and getting a sexual pension. You don't have to work for the sex any more, but you only get 65% as much.

  Aristotle

  Sex, Funny Marriage, Bachelors

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• When I am an old woman I shall wear purple,
  With a red hat which doesn't go and doesn't suit me,
  And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves,
  And satin sandals, and say we've no money for butter.

  Jenny Joseph

  Summer, July, Purple

  "Warning" l. 1 (1965)

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• The backwoodsmen are muttering about making Britain's draconian union laws - already among the toughest in Europe - harsher still. And parts of the media will continue to attack public service pensions, as if school meals staff, refuse collectors and healthcare workers have no right to a decent retirement.

  Frances O'Grady

  Retirement, School, Media

  "Forget 1979. This time we'll unite beleaguered Britain" by Frances O'Grady, www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2010.

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• Pension reforms, like investment advice and automatic enrollment, will strengthen the ability of Americans to save and invest for retirement.

  Steve Bartlett

  Retirement, Advice, Reform

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• I like eating out. I like buying beautiful paintings and being surrounded by beautiful things. I have to finance that life. I can barely afford a pension scheme because I don't make enough money.

  Andrew Motion

  Beautiful, Buying, Painting

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

  Bernard Baruch

  Money, Fall, Unemployment

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• I worked in an insurance office for six years, and it was there that I just woke up one day and realised there was something massively lacking in my life, and a non-contributory pension and a subsidised canteen could not fill it.

  Jamie Sives

  Years, Office, One Day

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• If one man tells you to murder, you get a jail cell - if another man tells you to murder, you get medals and a pension.

  Stefan Molyneux

  Men, Cells, Jail

  "Against the Gods?: A Concise Guide to Atheism and Agnosticism (The Costs of False Ethics)". Book by Stefan Molyneux, 2010.

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• National Health? Socialized pension funds? State-controlled television? Search and seizure laws? Forfeiture laws? If we're not living in the Soviet Union of the United States we certainly have returned to 1776 and 'taxation without representation.'

  Michael Moriarty

  Health, Law, United States

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• The way to balance the budget is for Congress to cut Social Security, move the retirement age to 70, cut defense, Medicare and veterans pensions, while the states cut almost everything else. It would be tough but we could do it.

  Howard Dean

  Retirement, Moving, Cutting

  Interview with Bob Schieffer, www.cbsnews.com. September 29, 2003.

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• No cuts to health , no cuts to education, no cuts to pensions.

  Tony Abbott

  Cutting

  "Abbott promises no cuts to education, health or pensions". "AM" with Sabra Lane, www.abc.net.au. September 5, 2013.

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• Pension reform can be hard to talk about. In the long run, reform now means fewer demands for layoffs and less draconian measures in the future. It's in the best interest of all Californians to fix this system now.

  Jerry Brown

  Running, Mean, Long

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• These wrestlers aren't organized. They have no union, no pension and no insurance. You meet wrestler after wrestler who sold out Madison Square Garden ten years ago, basically running on fumes today. There's a lot of drama there.

  Darren Aronofsky

  Running, Drama, Garden

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

  Anne McCaffrey

  Stuff, Ireland

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• Pension: An allowance made to anyone without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country.

  Samuel Johnson

  Country, Mean, Pay

  Samuel Johnson (1977). “Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.12, Univ of California Press

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• A retired teacher paid $62,000 towards her pension and nothing, yes nothing, for full family medical, dental and vision coverage over her entire career. What will we pay her? $1.4 million in pension benefits and another $215,000 in health care benefit premiums over her lifetime.

  Chris Christie

  Teacher, Careers, Vision

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• Under Reagan came the idea of putting your pension plan in the stock market, which wasn't a guaranteed pension.

  Michael Moore

  Pension Plans, Ideas, Plans

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• Contrary to what those in power would like you to believe so that you'll give up your pension, cut your wages, and settle for the life your great-grandparents had, America is not broke. Not by a long shot. The country is awash in wealth and cash.

  Michael Moore

  Country, Giving Up, Believe

  "Michael Moore Wisconsin Speech: America Is Not Broke" by Michael Moore, www.thedailybeast.com. March 7, 2011.

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• The implication that women work for pin money and can manage on a worse pension, presumably by relying on husbands, riles. But even more galling for women is that few government ministers seem to even appreciate the value of the work they do.

  Frances O'Grady

  Husband, Government, Appreciate

  "The derisory pensions offer hits women workers hard" by Frances O'Grady, www.theguardian.com. November 30, 2011.

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• I think I'd make a pretty good president, and they have a great pension plan.

  Pat Paulsen

  Thinking, Pension Plans, President

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• Over the next decade, cities and states across America will be compelled to tighten their belts as the really big bills - the pension bills they cannot afford - come due. They'll have to go after existing contracts with current workers.

  John Podhoretz

  America, Cities, Bills

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• However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.

  J. K. Rowling

  College, Views, Imagination

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• In the early 1980s, I burned my Social Security card at the New Orleans Investment Conference in protest of the state pension system.

  Mark Skousen

  New Orleans, Cards, Investment

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• The people who did the collateralized mortgage obligations, sold them to pension funds, then sold them short, then bought credit default swap insurance on them, are just amazing. They are a law unto themselves.

  Ben Stein

  Law, People, Credit

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