I was a stock broker once. I think there is an absolute place for market investments. But they should never be the basis of one's retirement. They should be an additional piece on top of a basic, secure, guaranteed retirement benefit.


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Hopefully, at some point, people will at least credit the Republicans with carrying out their oversi...
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Mistakes were made is something we heard back in '92, and that has sort of been the Clinton admi...
BARBARA OLSON
It's difficult to believe that Al Gore was oblivious to the existing laws. He has to respond at ...
BARBARA OLSON
Al Gore seems to have found a great political ploy: Picking up whatever issue he is most vulnerable ...
BARBARA OLSON
I think that's going to be an issue: Whether or not voters are going to get more of the same in ...
BARBARA OLSON
The mainstream media has chosen their candidates and their issues, and they're not the same as t...
BARBARA OLSON
I think Gore does have to worry. He is tied to Bill Clinton. We know that there were telephone calls...
BARBARA OLSON
The decision that has to be made was whether it was material, whether he knew he was lying under oat...
BARBARA OLSON
Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of autho...
BARBARA OLSON
It might seem unfair to reward a person for having so much pleasure over the years, asking the maize...
BARBARA MCCLINTOCK
I never thought of stopping, and I just hated sleeping. I can't imagine having a better life.
BARBARA MCCLINTOCK
I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
BARBARA MCCLINTOCK
If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you o...
BARBARA MCCLINTOCK
We're only here to love God and each other. I'm not saying I've never gotten angry at an...
BARBARA MANDRELL
What I do miss that I don't get anymore? You're going to think I'm crazy, but you want t...
BARBARA MANDRELL
That is the exciting thing: I don't know what God has given me for tomorrow.
BARBARA MANDRELL
It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really ca...
BARBARA MANDRELL
I think it was 37 years that I did music.
BARBARA MANDRELL
I am loving being Momma. I really, really am.
BARBARA MANDRELL
For the next approximately three years, I have got Nathan to take care of. I know that once he gradu...
BARBARA MANDRELL
And they just saw me on that and - from the time I was 11 until I was 12, I guess. And then when I h...
BARBARA MANDRELL
When I had my television show, 'Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters,' it was my high h...
BARBARA MANDRELL
I'm a very competitive person, and I always competed with myself. Every year, I'd take six w...
BARBARA MANDRELL
When I retired from my music November 1997, it had been 37 years.
BARBARA MANDRELL
We had to go all through the night thinking that our baby was dead. When God showed him to us, he wa...
BARBARA MANDRELL
I am not saying that I'm happy about what's going on right now in our nation, but I am at pe...
BARBARA MANDRELL
There will come a time when the public will tire of me and let me know it. That's when I retire....
BARBARA MANDRELL
I've been told by a lot of people after concerts that they felt the show was just for them. And ...
BARBARA MANDRELL
That's what I loved about show business, no two days were alike. It's an exciting life.
BARBARA MANDRELL
I don't know what the future holds, but I know that God holds tomorrow, so it is exciting. Even ...
BARBARA MANDRELL
In my garden, which is a big garden, I have one part that is my bird garden, and every morning, 365 ...
BARBARA MANDRELL
I realize we're not promised tomorrow. Believe me, I realize that. But if God blesses me and let...
BARBARA MANDRELL
I have lots of favorite shows, but not reality! I don't like reality TV so much. I'm saddene...
BARBARA MANDRELL
I learned mainly through television, but I learned how to do mosaic, where you can buy stones or thi...
BARBARA MANDRELL
I just like doing silly girly things. If I wrap a gift, I like to use specials ribbon and hot glue, ...
BARBARA MANDRELL
It's an exciting life. I don't know where God is leading us. I just know that He opens doors...
BARBARA MANDRELL
I might not be very smart, but I surround myself with smart people.
BARBARA MANDRELL