Government Quote by Bob Brown

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

Members of the public would be forgiven for thinking that it is MPs who are lazy and that it is parliament that is failing…

— Margaret Hodge

I don't think congressmen and senators ought to be getting pensions when nobody else does.

— Mike Braun

I think there should be a law that would allow the Oireachtas to take pensions away from people. That would go for corrupt politicians;…

— Leo Varadkar

A generous basic state pension is the least a civilized society should offer those who have worked hard and saved through their whole lives.

— George Osborne

“Pensions are aimed at the dead. Work hard for retirement! It never comes for many due to fatal illnesses and diseases.”

— Steven Magee

Our government workers should be treated fairly and appropriately. They should have a decent retirement, but not a gold-plated system where they can retire…

— Bruce Rauner

I think it is outrageous - to lock people's money away and change the rules on them. So, on point of principle, I stopped…

— Kate Thornton

No government can exist without taxation. The money must necessarily be levied on the people; and the grand art consists of levying so as…

— Frederick The Great

In England pensions used to be given to aristocrats, because aristocrats had political influence, in order to corrupt them. Here pensions are given to…

— William Graham Sumner

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

— Anonymous

Money power means budget power and it is folly to imagine that the citizen can control government unless he can control its budget.

— E.C. Riegel