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Is this a fit time, said my father to himself, to talk of Pensions and Grenadiers? -- Laurence Sterne
I have written to Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, asking him to consider 'staggered office timings' for government offices, which will help in decongesting road traffic during peak hours. -- Veerappa Moily
It wasn't until after college that I started writing. I had just applied randomly for jobs in the media and got one on a magazine called 'Pensions World.' So I was writing for a living there and that's when I started my first book. -- Sophie Kinsella
I do believe in pensions. -- Richard C. Armitage
The do-it-yourself version of pensions is a flop, as many Americans have painfully learned. -- William Greider
The U.K. is one of the few places in the world that has final salary pensions. -- Jim Ratcliffe
I have this cozy house here and I get three pensions from the States. I've done nicely. -- Jonathan Frid
Government pensions, built into law and mostly protected from stock market vagaries, are the envy of the private sector. -- Nina Easton
I believe when hard-working citizens have earned their pension, it's wrong for Washington bureaucrats and politicians to take their pensions away. -- Josh Mandel
The country will also need 'new forms of social welfare' instead of its current system which is excessively centred on pensions. -- Giorgio Napolitano
If you go to the U.S., you've got a huge market, cheap energy, good skills, and pensions are a sensible cost. -- Jim Ratcliffe
An independent Scotland could afford pensions full stop - after all, it is our taxes and national insurance contributions that fund them now. -- Nicola Sturgeon
They're making a song and dance because that serves their immediate interests. But what will happen tomorrow? They will have to pay salaries and pensions. -- Eduard Shevardnadze
Remember our proud history of social justice, universal health care, public pensions and making sure no one is left behind. Let's continue to move forward. -- Jack Layton
I respect the state workers and I respect their unions, but we simply can't afford to pay benefits and pensions that are out of line with economic reality. -- Andrew Cuomo
Aside from the poor example it sets, the federal government enables reckless spending on public-employee pensions by offering hope of assistance from Washington if things get bad enough. -- Devin Nunes
Public employee unions, in their defense, say politicians have unfairly made them into simplistic bogeymen, responsible for problems that have myriad causes. Not all government workers receive generous pensions, they note. -- Charles Duhigg
In some cases, managers and employees have secured pensions beyond their original base salary. It is wrong, the people doing it know it's wrong, and we have to put an end to it. -- Jerry Brown
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. -- Jacques Delors
I think I'd work on making sure that Canadians have opportunities to find good jobs, to grow, to gain stability in terms of pensions. The reality is that Canadians don't feel that our economy is working for us. -- Justin Trudeau
The Europeans waited so long that they are impacting people who depend on their pensions. We are still early enough to fix it for the next generation. A few states have started scaling back their programs, while others have come hat in hand for billion-dollar federal bailouts. -- Timothy Griffin
There are tons of examples of U.K. and European mistakes. A classic one is pensions. That's obviously not an America-specific thing. The British and European economies are suffering under the weight of what is to come. The next great Ponzi scheme after Madoff is probably pensions. -- Dambisa Moyo
Democrats have always historically referred to our families as working families, and I have sort of changed that moniker. I think what we have is a nation of worried families - families that are concerned about job security, families who thought their pensions were secure and now have questions. -- Tom Vilsack
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They said it was impossible to touch the third rail of politics, to take on public-sector unions and to reform a pension and health benefits system that was headed to bankruptcy. But with bipartisan leadership, we saved taxpayers $132 billion dollars over 30 years and saved retirees their pensions. We did it. -- Chris Christie
If you look at things that really affect people's lives - sport, the arts, charities - they were always at the back of the queue for government money - health, social security, defence, pensions were all way ahead. And each of those areas - sports, the arts, the lottery - got relatively petty cash from the government. -- John Major
To see poor people, their benefits being cut, to see pensions of Americans who have worked like my father, all their lives, and taken away, to see the rich just accumulating more and more wealth. I mean, it seems to me that there has to be a point where you have to say, 'No, this has to stop.' -- Henry Giroux
No cuts to health , no cuts to education, no cuts to pensions -- Tony Abbott
One thing which frustrates me about state pensions is the disparity between EU countries. -- Geoff Capes
You don't have to talk to me about pensions. I won't be around long enough to collect one. -- Mickey Mantle
Live long enough and you'll come into pensions, a lovely thing. Presents every month from people you didn't know cared. -- Ruth Gordon
Increased wages, higher pensions, more unemployment insurance, all are of no avail if the purchasing power of money falls faster. -- Bernard Baruch
Devolutionary reform will not provide a factory, a machine or jobs, build a school, train a doctor or put a pound on pensions. -- Neil Kinnock
Many old people receive pensions for no other reason, it seems to me, but as a compensation for having lived a long time ago. -- Henry David Thoreau
What are the characteristics of today's world so that one may recognize it by them?" It pays pensions and borrows money: credit and monuments. -- Franz Grillparzer
I have decided to be a poet. My father said there isn't a suitable career structure for poets and no pensions and other boring things, but I am quite decided. -- Sue Townsend
[A] major source of wealth for many families is financial assets, including stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and private pensions. ...the wealthiest 5 percent of households held nearly two-thirds of all such assets in 2013 -- Janet Yellen

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