Ken Buck Quotes

Everyone thinks about retirement at some point.

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.

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.

We have some control over when we retire. However, we have very little control over how long we will live.

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.

I do believe in pensions.

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.

I can't retire.

I suspect if people live a lot longer they would be retired for a somewhat longer period of time. Just the financial planning takes on a very different character.

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.

Retirement is fatal. Luckily, in my profession, you don't have to retire.

I guess I'll retire someday if I live that long.

When I was younger, I thought about retiring.

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.

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

Who knows? I might retire at the age of 65.

Cutting benefits is not the right answer. Raising the retirement age is not the best option.

More retirees, longer life expectancy, larger benefits, and fewer workers - these trends have meant substantial increases in the payroll tax. Since the social security program began, the payroll tax has increased more than 500 percent.

I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.

I look back on it, yeah, I'm in a much worse financial position than I was eight years ago. I'm going to have to go out at age 62 and kind of readdress some of that.

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.

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.