Elizabeth Warren Quotes

I have considered the pension list of the republic a roll of honor.

I'm not retiring, because when you retire, you're still getting paid. I'm not getting paid, so I'm not retiring.

There's no pensions for old prize fighters.

Our government makes the simple promise of a secure retirement to every American who works for many years and contributes to our retirement benefit system.

A man has a birthright to be tired and retired. I am retired completely.

I don't need to have a retirement, retire your jersey, all that stuff to solidify my career.

I'm a little young for retirement.

Our government works should be treated fairly and appropriately; they should have a decent retirement, but not a gold-plated system where they can retire multimillionaires in their 50s.

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

We have so many people retiring that we do not have enough people paying into the system to be able to provide the benefits for those collecting those benefits.

The NFL pension is the worst in the world of business. It's an embarrassment.

Indeed, I think most Americans now know that in 1935 when Social Security was created, there were some 42 Americans working for every American collecting retirement benefits.

When I was young, many people worked for a company with a pension plan that covered them for as long as they lived. If they didn't have a pension plan, they could count on Social Security and Medicare.

We owe our public servants, from school teachers to state employees, a sustainable and well-funded retirement that they can count on.

I respect public employees and school teachers. They deserve a secure retirement.

We will maintain and honor the commitments made to people in the IPERS system.

I never use that word, retire.

Since 1935, this has been a pay-as-you-go system, and I always believed when I first started talking about Social Security that there was a little box that had my name on it and it had my benefits for when I retired. That is not true.

The fine print in the President's Social Security proposal is that all present and future workers under age 55 will have their promised retirement benefits cut.

Today there are about 40 million retirees receiving benefits; by the time all the baby boomers have retired, there will be more than 72 million retirees drawing Social Security benefits.

I like retirement.

Many seniors understand that Social Security is social insurance as opposed to a program where we put money aside for our own retirement. But most elderly individuals think they're getting their money back. So it isn't selfishness as much as a misunderstanding.

Social Security is the very foundation of retirement security for millions of Americans.

The retirement system that is in place for members of Congress and other federal workers features what is known as the Federal Employment Retirement Plan.

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.