#pension

The people who did the collateralized mortgage obligations, sold them to pension funds, then sold them short, then bought credit default swap insurance on them, are just amazing. They are a law unto themselves. ↗

— Ben Stein

#bought #credit #default #did #funds

I have considered the pension list of the republic a roll of honor. ↗

— Grover Cleveland

#honor #i #list #pension #republic

The infrastructure of the US is a long-term suspension of disbelief that such things won't be exploded deliberately by people who don't create anything. ↗

— Dave Winer

#create #deliberately #disbelief #exploded #infrastructure

The do-it-yourself version of pensions is a flop, as many Americans have painfully learned. ↗

— William Greider

#flop #learned #many #painfully #pensions

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

#ahead #always #areas #arts #back

The country will also need 'new forms of social welfare' instead of its current system which is excessively centred on pensions. ↗

— Giorgio Napolitano

#country #current #excessively #forms #instead

It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief. ↗

— Lionel Trilling

#disbelief #life #now #requires #suspension

People don't place their trust in government or company pension plans; they have to be self-reliant. ↗

— Scott Cook

#government #pension #people #place #plans

If Britain is to have a stable, affordable pension system, people need to work longer, but we will reward their hard work with a decent state pension that will enable them to enjoy quality of life in their retirement. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#britain #decent #enable #enjoy #hard

My suspension was a long-planned move... and was done to protect would-be convicts in Romanian politics. ↗

— Traian Basescu

#done #move #politics #protect #suspension