Pension Quotes - Page 6

• If you've been frugal during your life and tried to save, you're penalised by the tax system. You pay tax on your wages, your savings and even your private pension.

  Geoff Capes

  Saving, Wages, Pay

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I assure the ex servicemen that One Rank One Pension has been accepted in principle but it is in talks. We want to get a solution which is acceptable to all. Discussions have come to the final leg, we hope for a positive result.

  Narendra Modi

  Legs, Want, Principles

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• Many governments have faced the proposal of One Rank One Pension but no solution has been found yet.

  Narendra Modi

  Government, Proposal, Found

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• I would like to invite the citizens of Great Britain and the citizens of the U.S. and the citizens of the world to come here and walk freely through the streets of Venezuela, to talk to anyone they want, to watch television, to read the papers. We are building a true democracy, with human rights for everyone, social rights, education, health care, pensions, social security, and jobs.

  Hugo Chavez

  Jobs, Rights, Democracy

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• [A] major source of wealth for many families is financial assets, including stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and private pensions. ...the wealthiest 5 percent of households held nearly two-thirds of all such assets in 2013

  Janet Yellen

  Two, Financial, Wealth

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

  Henry David Thoreau

  Long, People, Age

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Maine Woods: The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume III (of 20)”, p.74, Trajectory Inc

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• Social Security is a widely popular program because the individual has been deceived by the Statist to believe that the government has been prudently and diligently managing his accumulated pension investment in his Social Security account, which he presumes to be funded by his own payroll taxes.

  Mark Levin

  Believe, Government, Payroll Tax

  Mark R. Levin (2009). “Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto”, p.90, Simon and Schuster

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• Government aid programs have been endlessly expanded, and the government has sought to maximize the number of people willing to accept handouts..... Roughly half of all Americans are dependent on the government, either for handouts, pensions, or paychecks.

  James Bovard

  Government, Numbers, People

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• 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.

  William Graham Sumner

  Order, Political, England

  William Graham Sumner (1903). “What Social Classes Owe to Each Other”, p.123, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Government workers think the job of everyone else in the economy is to protect their high salaries, crazy work rules and obscene pensions. They self-righteously lecture us about public service, the children, a 'living wage' all in the service of squeezing more money from the taxpayer to fund their breathtakingly selfish job arrangements.

  Ann Coulter

  Jobs, Children, Crazy

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• I don't invest in the stock market, but I have pension funds - some in America and the UK.

  Eric Idle

  America, Fund

  "Eric Idle: 'The BBC paid us £2,000 a series for Monty Python'". Interview with Angela Wintle, www.telegraph.co.uk. January 10, 2016.

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• I want to talk about jobs and health care and pension security and what we're going to do to stop the brain drain in Ohio and make it possible for our young people to stay here and build a life in Ohio rather than in Pennsylvania or West Virginia or God knows where.

  Ted Strickland

  Jobs, Virginia, Ohio

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• Groups are corporations now. They have pension plans. Musicians have saw the daylight.

  John Lee Hooker

  Pension Plans, Musician, Groups

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• I have a fear of poverty in old age. I have this vision of myself living in a skip and eating cat food. It's because I'm freelance, and I've never had a proper job. I don't have a pension, and my savings are dwindling. I always thought someone would just come along and look after me.

  Jenny Eclair

  Jobs, Cat, Vision

  "This much I know" by Stuart Husband, www.theguardian.com. December 6, 2008.

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• 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.

  John Major

  Sports, Art, Government

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• You don't take a job in acting at all expecting 25 years in and a pension.

  Sarah Wayne Callies

  Jobs, Years, Acting

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• People don't place their trust in government or company pension plans; they have to be self-reliant.

  Scott D. Cook

  Government, Pension Plans, Self

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• Think of your pension and start saving. Like my father, I have been a spendthrift, and I regret that.

  Britt Ekland

  Regret, Father, Thinking

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• Unbeknownst to most American investors, significant portions of their public pension, mutual fund, life insurance and private portfolios are comprised of stocks of privately held companies that partner with state sponsors of terror.

  Frank Gaffney

  Portfolios, Mutual Fund, Significant

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• You got your glory and you paid for it all, you take your pension in loneliness and alcohol.

  Billy Squier

  Art, Loneliness, Media

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

  Giorgio Napolitano

  Country, Needs, Welfare

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• I suppose, as a politician, I should be content, for the Canada Pension Plan certainly put my name in Canada's history books, and in italics.

  Judy LaMarsh

  Book, Pension Plans, Names

  Judy LaMarsh (1969). “Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage”, Toronto ; Montreal : McClelland and Stewart

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• Gays have become colossal bores. Once interesting and iconoclastic, all they seem to crave nowadays is the State's pension and seal of approval. They ought to go back to the days of the Stonewall Riots, when the police's violations of privacy and private property were the object of their anger and activism.

  Ilana Mercer

  Gay, Interesting, Police

  "Brokeback Mountain' Revisited". WorldNetDaily.com, June 9, 2006.

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• It's no go the picture palace, it's no go the stadium,
  It's no go the country cot with a pot of pink geraniums.
  It's no go the Government grants, it's no go the elections,
  Sit on your arse for fifty years and hang your hat on a pension.

  Louis MacNeice

  Country, Government, Years

  'Bagpipe Music' (1938)

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• 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.

  Devin Nunes

  Government, Offering, Example

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