We will keep the promise of Social Security by taking the responsible steps to strengthen it – not by turning it over to Wall Street.

And that means that no matter how we reform health care, we will keep this promise to the American people: If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor, period. If you like your health care plan, you’ll be able to keep your health care plan, period. No one will take it away, no matter what.

I was offered a job on Wall Street by my uncle. But I wanted to get out. Make-it-on-my-own kinda thing.

Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history.

Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders.

The minute a Wall Street firm purchases your debt, your bank no longer has it on its financial statement, which then allows the bank to look for more credit card customers. That’s one reason why you get so many credit card offers.

Many people will have nothing at the end of their working lives.

Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.

Every Republican’s voted for it. Look at what they value and look at their budget and what they’re proposing. Romney wants to let the – he said in the first 100 days he’s going to let the big banks once again write their own rules – unchain Wall Street. They’re gonna put y’all back in chains.

Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.

Social Security’s not the hard one to solve. Medicare, that is the gorilla in the room, and you’ve got to put all of it on the table.

There are major efforts being made to dismantle Social Security, the public schools, the post office – anything that benefits the population has to be dismantled. Efforts against the U.S. Postal Service are particularly surreal.

Over the years I’ve learned how to lock myself up in a prison of hope, knowing that God has nothing but His best planned for me. He promised me things concerning my ministry and my life.

I was kind of secretly hoping one of my kids would go out and make a million bucks. So when they put me in a home, at least I’ll have a window with a view.

What you’re seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they’re directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society.

If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.

Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.

Social Security is based on a principle. It’s based on the principle that you care about other people. You care whether the widow across town, a disabled widow, is going to be able to have food to eat.

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.

Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script.

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

The day I think I’m not enjoying the game and contributing the way I would like to, I’ll hang up my boots.

No matter how you cut it, this real debate on personal accounts is about the legitimacy of Social Security; it’s not about the solvency of Social Security.

I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.

Yes, we’ve still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world-class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years.

One word from the Lord is like a piece of gold to a believer, who is like a jeweler, shaping and hammering out the promise for a number of weeks.

Better a broken promise than none at all.

Contemplation of life after retirement and life after death can help you deal with contemporary challenges.

I have never used Auto-Tune in a live television performance, and I have never used Auto-Tune in any of my concerts. That is a promise.

When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.

I can promise you that when I go to Sacramento, I will pump up Sacramento.

Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.

The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity – or it will move apart.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

There are certain age limits on police officers. They’d have retired me out at 65.

A promise must never be broken.

I will never turn Medicare into a voucher. No American should ever have to spend their golden years at the mercy of insurance companies. They should retire with the care and dignity they have earned.

Now, as a nation, we don’t promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That’s an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.

Over the objections, where they sound like squealing pigs, over the objections of Romney and all his allies, we passed some of the toughest Wall Street regulations in history, turning Wall Street back into the allocator of capital it always has been and no longer a casino. And they want to repeal it.

Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.

I knew when my career was over. In 1965 my baseball card came out with no picture.

Public education is our greatest pathway to opportunity in America. So we need to invest in and strengthen our public universities today, and for generations to come.

It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.

I really wanted to retire and rest and spend more time with my children, my grandchildren and of course with my wife.

You can retire from a job, but don’t ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life.

I will never retire from politics, the revolution, or the ideas I have.

My brother Bob doesn’t want to be in government – he promised Dad he’d go straight.

I have been trying to retire to the back of the camera for quite a few years, and in 1970, when I first started directing, I said, ‚If I could pull this off, I can some day move to the back of the camera and stay there.‘

Food Stamp recipients didn’t cause the financial crisis; recklessness on Wall Street did.

I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we’ve struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We’ve made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.

I will never retire unless I have to.

The effort to try to present the Social Security program as if it’s a major problem, that’s just a hidden way of trying to undermine and destroy it.

The New Testament says nothing of Apostles who retired and took it easy.

Wall Street apparently takes and then forgets, and then comes after the guns of law-abiding American citizens and small businesses.

A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.

My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.

We didn’t become the most prosperous country in the world just by rewarding greed and recklessness. We didn’t come this far by letting the special interests run wild. We didn’t do it just by gambling and chasing paper profits on Wall Street. We built this country by making things, by producing goods we could sell.

Some people spend their lives building ultimate dream homes so they can enjoy their twilight years… Others spend their last days in nursing homes.

I’m definitely looking forward to the day when I stop working – if I ever stop working. I like the idea of keeling over in my tomato vines in Sardinia or northern Italy.

I probably would have retired years ago if I hadn’t found interesting things to do.