Able Quote by Iain Duncan Smith

Work is transformative. It gives you a greater chance of a greater income. You can affect your life while you're of working age, so…

— Iain Duncan Smith

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

One line I'd draw would be on raising the eligibility age for Social Security and Medicare. It sounds fair, since people are living longer.…

— Gail Collins

Raising the traditional and early retirement ages will mean extending workers' taxable earning years, fueling economic growth and putting a dent in our unfunded-liabilities…

— Michelle Malkin

On aging societies, there is no reason why a country that has a lot of old people can't be prosperous if, during their working…

— Milton Friedman

Who are benefits promised to, overwhelmingly? Well, they're promised to older people. And if you have a society like Europe that is upside down…

— Rick Santorum

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

— Barack Obama

If you are advocating full retirement benefits starting at 60, my reaction is the system is already 31 percent underfinanced and can not afford…

— Laurence Kotlikoff

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,…

— Jerry Brown

We've got to make sure our younger workers understand that as life expectancy increases, the retirement date for benefits increases also.

— Ken Buck

But while the state pension is a critical foundation for people's financial security as they age, it must be supplemented with other forms of…

— David Gauke

The old economy with careers and benefits and pensions is gone. There are scary implications to that.

— Chris Sacca