15 Quotes by Walker Stapleton

We owe our public servants, from school teachers to state employees, a sustainable and well-funded retirement that they can count on.

If a division becomes insolvent, the credit markets' reaction to that is immediate - regardless of what period of time you think you have to remedy.

There is a valid nationwide sentiment of concern over public pensions, and poor funding ratios are viewed negatively by financial markets.

Colorado cannot afford to become the next California, with skyrocketing taxes that hurt our state's economy and our quality of life.

When you have kids as cute as mine - offsetting my features - you need to highlight them.

That's where the good ideas come from: the people, not the boardroom. But you have to be willing to put in the legwork.

Legislators should demand that we not go through the entire pension reform debate just to apply a band-aid when this patient needs a quadruple bypass.

I don't think Congress, in general, has done a good job articulating to the American public how inextricably linked our credit markets are to our entire economic system.

It is my hope that I will be able to work with legislative leaders on both sides of the aisle and Gov. Hickenlooper to find a solution to fix our ailing pension system.