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"I can enjoy a vacation as well as the next person, as long as I know it's a vacation and not a premature retirement."


"I didn't want to stay until I had used up all the enjoyment because that's too long to stay anywhere."


"Why do I need succession planning? I'm very alert, I'm very vibrant. I have no intention to retire."


"I am not really retired, and may never be completely, but I can't think of a better place to contemplate retirement than New York City."


"From today I am no longer a racing driver. I'm retired and I am very happy."


"There's a lot we can do to improve American's retirement security, but it's wrong to replace the guaranteed benefit that Americans have earned with a guaranteed benefit cut of forty percent or more."


"Personal savings accounts to me are one of the most powerful things, not necessarily in saving, solvency, or bankruptcy of the program, but in guaranteeing, the words I used a few minutes ago, a safe and secure retirement for our seniors."


"Since Social Security faces a large gap between what it promises younger workers and what it can afford to pay them, private savings will likely need to play a larger role in retirement planning for younger workers."


"Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples."
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"Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom."


"Despite the encouraging and wonderful gains and the changes for women which have occurred in my lifetime, there is still room to advance and to promote correction of the remaining deficiencies and imbalances."


"My sense is that jurists from other nations around the world understand that our court occupies a very special place in the American system, and that the court is rather well regarded in comparison, perhaps, to their own."


"Yes, I will bring the understanding of a woman to the Court, but I doubt that alone will affect my decisions."


"I'm a judge. It seemed to me that it was critical to try to take action to stem the criticism and help people understand that in the constitutional framework, it's terribly important not to have a system of retaliation against decisions people don't like."


"We don't accomplish anything in this world alone... and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of individual threads form one to another that creates something."


"The abortion cases produced an enormous amount of mail to my chambers, vastly more than to the other chambers, I am sure. I sometimes thought there wasn't a woman in the United States who didn't write me a letter on one side or the other of that issue."


"The more education a woman has, the wider the gap between men's and women's earnings for the same work."


"My concern was whether I could do the job of a justice well enough to convince the nation that my appointment was the right move."
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