Amber Rudd Quotes

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.

When I was young, many people worked for a company with a pension plan that covered them for as long as they lived. If they didn't have a pension plan, they could count on Social Security and Medicare.

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.

There's no pensions for old prize fighters.

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

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

Well, today people have to be self-reliant if they want a secure retirement income.

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.

Personal savings accounts to me are one of the most powerful things, not necessarily in saving, solvency, or bankruptcy of the program, but in guaranteeing, the words I used a few minutes ago, a safe and secure retirement for our seniors.

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.

I think the notion of retirement is just a dreadful, dreadful idea and I hope I never have to do that.

Social Security not only helps Americans enjoy a secure retirement, it has also kept millions of Americans out of poverty.

I am not really retired, and may never be completely, but I can't think of a better place to contemplate retirement than New York City.

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

I think if we are actually going to accept our generation's responsibility, that's going to mean that we give our children no less retirement security than we inherited from our parents.

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?

You cannot go to someone who is 65 or 70 years of age and tell 'em, 'This program that you retired relying on is now being pulled out from underneath you.'

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.

I'm a little young for retirement.

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.

By the time I am Howard's age I hope to be long retired. I don't plan on working that long.

The rate of return on Social Security for people nearing retirement is about 1.5 percent. By the time young children like mine are ready to retire, that rate of return will be a negative percentage.

I was a stock broker once. I think there is an absolute place for market investments. But they should never be the basis of one's retirement. They should be an additional piece on top of a basic, secure, guaranteed retirement benefit.