"A promise made is a promise kept."
"Thank you, Dr. McGowan. I am going to just start by--with Ms. Haggerty, if you don't mind, and want to thank you for making the investment in U.S. companies, for funding your pension plan."
"I think there is a way to write into the law or write into our policy at least forecasting practices that do not constrain business investment but are sufficiently conservative to protect taxpayers."
"We are confronted today with two difficult realities."
"the House is about to do--to write into law or try to write into law the most optimistic forecast about revenues, which I don't think would serve us well."
"The best way to ensure a plan's future is to increase its funded status by stable and predictable funding infusions."
"the mistakes that the agency made some number of years ago undermines the security we want to offer to everybody."
"What most Americans fear now... is outliving your retirement plan."
"I can assure you there are a hundred and something thousand American Airlines workers right now that are worried to death: Am I going to get what I was promised?"
"trust is important because if I am a retiree out there and I have paid in I am now questioning, learning this, am I getting what I should be getting?"
"There are many Americans--over 40 million--who have a defined benefit plan, they expect to get paid what they are told."