Kim Reynolds Quotes

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

I believe that social security should be a universal retirement guarantee and not means tested.

Most private sector workers can only dream of getting the generous lifetime pension and health benefits typical of government service.

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

From the employees' standpoint, in 1935, Social Security was a big gamble. Employees would be required to participate in the program, contributing a percentage of their income for their entire adult working life.

I can't retire.

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

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.

Social Security is an insurance policy. It's a terrible investment vehicle. Social Security has some great benefits. But it was never meant to be a savings plan. So we need to have a national debate. Should this 12.5 percent that we're contributing all go into a Social Security pool, or should half go into a mandatory savings plan?

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.

The Social Security trust fund is in pretty good shape today and we should not embark upon risky, dangerous schemes which will, in fact, undermine Social Security, such as privatization.

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.

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.

Our nation's Social Security Trust Fund is depleting at an alarming rate, and failure to implement immediate reforms endangers the ability of Americans to plan for their retirement with the options and certainty they deserve.

The President's proposed privatization plan would jeopardize that security by cutting guaranteed benefits for future retirees and endangering the benefits of current retirees, people with disabilities, and children who have lost a parent.

Social Security is meant to be - to make sure that no one who's worked hard and played by the rules and paid into the system grows old in poverty in America.

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

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

People have less health care and less retirement benefits than they had 10 years ago.

We can't be paying pensions to the next generation of federal workers when hardly anyone in the private sector gets them.

The pension system ties you to companies much longer in Japan.

To those state and local government employees who care deeply about this issue, let me be crystal clear: Under my watch, your IPERS is safe. It will not change; it will be protected; and you will have the retirement you were promised. Period.

No retirement system in the world is as broken as ours.

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