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I believe when hard-working citizens have earned their pension, it's wrong for Washington bureaucrats and politicians to take their pensions away.

My view is pensioners don't have the one option that people of working age have. They can't really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work.

A pension is nothing more than deferred compensation.

We can't be paying pensions to the next generation of federal workers when hardly anyone in the private sector gets them.

Most private-sector folks don't get a pension.

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

The U.K. is one of the few places in the world that has final salary pensions.

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

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.

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.