Of course I could have retired anytime. But retiring would drive me crazy.
Ted Knight

One day, my youngest uncle - the other one who was first to go to college, Randy - and I were sitting out on the front porch. And he was brilliant. He ended up - he just retired from Boeing Aircraft in Wichita, Kansas.
James Earl Jones

Our Hispanic community needs to understand how important the Social Security system is for not only its retired citizens, but also its disabled workers.
Grace Napolitano

Part of the redesign of FEMA is that they have so many people on standby, whether it is a retired nurse or a doctor who will take time off to go exactly where they are needed.
Ginny B. Waite

People do not retire. They are retired by others.
Duke Ellington

Remember Judy Garland? She retired 40 times.
Willard Scott

Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not.
Richard Armour

Right up until the time I retired at age 37, I felt like there were still things that I could do better.
Julius Erving

Since 1935, this has been a pay-as-you-go system, and I always believed when I first started talking about Social Security that there was a little box that had my name on it and it had my benefits for when I retired. That is not true.
Judy Biggert

Study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.
Thomas Moore

Technically, I've been retired for some time now. All I ever do is occasionally write songs for friends, such as one, for a friend who had just turned 80. I wrote a song for him called, The First 80 Years are The Hardest.
Tom Glazer

The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.
Tony Benn

The plan was criticized by some retired military officers embedded in TV studios. But with every advance by our coalition forces, the wisdom of that plan becomes more apparent.
Dick Cheney

The reality is that the workforce relative to the number of people retired has shrunk and today in America there are only 3.3 working Americans paying payroll taxes to support each individual currently retired and collecting Social Security taxes.
John Shadegg

They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom.
William Congreve

Today there are about 40 million retirees receiving benefits; by the time all the baby boomers have retired, there will be more than 72 million retirees drawing Social Security benefits.
Tony Snow

War coverage should be more than a parade of retired generals and retired government flacks posing as reporters.
Amy Goodman

We have the Troops to Teachers program, which encourages retired military individuals to go into teaching.
Ralph Regula

When I retired from my music November 1997, it had been 37 years.
Barbara Mandrell