Pension Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• 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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• Democrats have always historically referred to our families as working families, and I have sort of changed that moniker. I think what we have is a nation of worried families - families that are concerned about job security, families who thought their pensions were secure and now have questions.

  Tom Vilsack

  Jobs, Thinking, Worried

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• In 2008, when the real estate market blew up, it principally hurt older people who saw the value of their houses go down, along with their pension plans.

  Juan Williams

  Hurt, Real, Pension Plans

  "Will Young Voters Sink Obama In 2012?" by Juan Williams, www.foxnews.com. September 27, 2011.

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

  Anne McCaffrey

  Stuff, Ireland

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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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• 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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• To the extent that people overpay as a result of the Libor manipulation, they should be able to get their money back. Individuals who have mortgages, pension funds who had pensioner investments - whoever was ripped off is entitled to get their money back.

  Peter Welch

  People, Able, Manipulation

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• When you look at the things people are really fed up with, like the collapse of the pension system, like the failure to get money to the frontline of the health service, Gordon Brown is more responsible for that than any other politician including Tony Blair

  George Osborne

  Failure, People, Looks

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• My father died when I was two years old. But my mother was quite capable. She raised three children with his war pension which was peanuts. Yet we did not want for anything. We grew up with a certain parsimony, which is a nice thing. Then if life gives you more good, otherwise you get used to. I'm still thrifty.

  Giulio Andreotti

  Mother, Children, Father

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• For the author there is nothing but his pen, till that and life are worn to the stump: and then, with good fortune, perhaps on his death-bed he receives a pension and equals, it may be, for a few months, the income of a retired butler!

  Samuel Laman Blanchard

  May, Months, Bed

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• I took a hasty trip to Germany, Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, and England to talk to the officials of each Government about their pension provisions, and to talk to the responsible ministers in each country about the political "whys" of their legislation.

  Judy LaMarsh

  Country, Government, Political

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

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• You start a project as a young person and then at the end you are another person. You are ready to go for your pension.

  Santiago Calatrava

  Ends, Projects, Young

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• Faced with such insecurity, labor unions seek a solution in demands for higher wages, shorter hours, pensions, and such things. But this approach takes monopolistic capitalism for granted, and accepts the unnatural division between property and responsibility as permanent. A much more radical solution is apt to come, and this may take either of two forms.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Wisdom, Responsibility, Two

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

  Ruth Gordon

  Retirement, Long, People

  Ruth Gordon (1980). “Ruth Gordon, an open book”, Doubleday Books

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• When I had a few francs, I spent them at a café on the Place de Longchamps, a block or so from my pension, where I could order a glass of Beaujolais and a plate of string beans in vinaigrette for the equivalent of fifteen cents.

  Paula Fox

  Block, Paris, Glasses

  Paula Fox (2006). “The Coldest Winter: A Stringer in Liberated Europe”, p.35, Macmillan

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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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