Charles Boustany Quotes

Every American must be guaranteed dignity and independence in their retirement.

With or without a Social Security fix, Americans don't have enough assets to retire on. There has to be a much larger debate.

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.

Part of the middle class promise is that, after a lifetime of hard work, you'll be able to retire and enjoy the fruits of that labor. Medicare was established to secure that promise.

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 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.

There's a lot we can do to improve American's retirement security, but it's wrong to replace the guaranteed benefit that Americans have earned with a guaranteed benefit cut of forty percent or more.

A secure retirement is one of the pillars of middle class life. For all too many Americans, however, that pillar needs more support.

The next generation is going to have to understand that Social Security is just one leg of a stool. We need to actually bring back that savings incentive, and the only way you're going to be able to do that is if you have a job.

The question isn't at what age I want to retire, it's at what income.

Our seniors' retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market.

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.

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

Though Congress continues to explore possible solutions to ensure social security solvency, everyone must take personal responsibility to prepare their own retirement savings accordingly.

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.

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.

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

Payroll savings plans are vital because they are essentially the only way that middle-class Americans reliably save for retirement.

I want to retire how I want to retire - and I have a great opportunity to do that.

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

When I retire, I want to retire the right way.

I want to retire and want to be able to live out my days financially secure. That's what everyone wants.

A whole generation of Americans will retire in poverty instead of prosperity, because they simply are not preparing for retirement now.

Money isn't everything, but it is when you start thinking about putting money away for your retirement days.