Scott Cook Quotes

Everyone thinks about retirement at some point.

I can't retire.

I have no plan to retire anytime soon, although remember I am 50 years old!

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.

Since Social Security faces a large gap between what it promises younger workers and what it can afford to pay them, private savings will likely need to play a larger role in retirement planning for younger workers.

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.

Younger workers should have more freedom to build their retirement nest egg.

I have to think about the possible ramifications of an early retirement.

But with a rate of return of 1.6 percent or less, or a negative rate of return, our children and our grandchildren, if we do not make changes, will in fact not have a secure retirement. Indeed, they will not have the funds when they go to retire to even minimally get by.

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

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.

If a woman did not work and have the opportunity to save and invest on her own throughout her lifetime, she is often totally reliant on her family and Social Security for her retirement years.

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.

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

Americans are not saving enough for retirement.

Retirement security is often compared to a three-legged stool supported by Social Security, employer-provided pension funds, and private savings.

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 should be able to enjoy a secure retirement after a lifetime of hard work. But too many Americans reach retirement without enough savings to supplement their Social Security benefits.

Countries get one chance in history of putting into place a savings retirement scheme on the scale of the Australian superannuation system.

While more people are working later in life because of happy things like longer life expectancy, they are also doing so because of very sad things, like a lack of Social Security benefits or retirement plans.

If you put nothing away for retirement, I can tell you, to the last penny, how much you will have when you retire: nothing.

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

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.

People just haven't saved enough for retirement. And they're going to outlive their money.

Social Security is the only thing most Americans can count on to keep them out of poverty during retirement.