Nina Easton Quotes

The great increase in longevity has produced a surge in the desire to accumulate assets for retirement. It has outpaced the ability of the private sector to produce assets, so we need a larger government debt.

Do I want to see people take their Social Security payments and put them into private accounts, open up an eTrade account and go into the stock market? Absolutely not.

I stand with the millions of seniors and working people who depend on Social Security and who expect the money they put in to be there for them when they retire.

President Roosevelt, the author of Social Security, was the first to suggest that, in order to provide for the country's retirement needs, Social Security would need to be supplemented by personal savings accounts.

I do believe in pensions.

Most private-sector folks don't get a pension.

We need to make sure people continue to have access to retirement plans because everyone deserves the opportunity to retire with dignity and financial independence.

Corporations are reneging on pension obligations. Social Security is under attack.

Social Security is a social insurance program - it is not designed to be the same thing as a 401(k).

We need to take steps to strengthen and mend Social Security so that its promise of a secure retirement is just as real for seniors in the future as it is today.

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.

For these reasons, women tend to rely more heavily on Social Security in their retirement than do men.

We need to build on the success of Social Security by developing bold and innovative ways for Americans to build wealth and save for retirement. I believe we can work together in a bipartisan manner to accomplish these goals.

We need more cartoonists to truly retire when they retire, and not run repeats.

I support voluntary personal retirement accounts for Social Security. It should be people's free choice.

For people who have for been putting their hard-earned money into the system for years, the president's idea would replace their safety net with a risky gamble with no assurance of a stable return of investment.

There is a kind of fear, approaching a panic, that's spreading through the Baby Boom Generation, which has suddenly discovered that it will have to provide for its own retirement.

We've got to make sure our younger workers understand that as life expectancy increases, the retirement date for benefits increases also.

I'd like to retire at 50 but I don't want to sell papers in the middle of London on a Zimmer.

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

We want to develop innovative ways to promote savings so more Americans can save for their future, but first we need to reject privatization schemes and work together to strengthen Social Security.

Privatizing Social Security will take dollars out of young folks' pockets.

We have a rare and perhaps small window of opportunity to set partisan differences aside, and attempt to achieve what many in recent years have felt was unreachable - greater retirement security for ourselves and our children.

Americans used to be able to depend on their jobs to provide a stable retirement.

In other words, Social Security is every bit as insecure as the stock market.