Dave Barry Quotes

It's crucial that we keep care for our seniors a priority.

I should be a representative for AARP!

And now that the Greatest Generation is getting older, I think it is the responsibility of all Americans to make sure we do our part for America's seniors. You have earned the best of America -- and we need to make sure you get the protection and health care you deserve.

A society that does not value its older people denies its roots and endangers its future. Let us strive to enhance their capacity to support themselves for as long as possible and, when they cannot do so anymore, to care for them.

Old age is never honored among us, but only indulged, as childhood is; and old men lose one of the most precious rights of man,--that of being judged by their peers.

The fastest-growing population in the United States is the older people, because we are living much longer, healthier lives. The problem is, individuals often don't have the resources to take care of older people as they age. This is something that is happening, and we have to deal with it. It was happening also in my life.

Many old people receive pensions for no other reason, it seems to me, but as a compensation for having lived a long time ago.

As a member of the Aging Committee, I'm no stranger to fighting for America's seniors.

As the United States has become an older nation, reverse mortgages have grown into a $20-billion-a-year industry, with elderly homeowners taking out more than 132,000 such loans in 2007, an increase of more than 270 percent from two years earlier.

I want our party to step up its efforts to reflect and champion the concerns of everybody who has reached the second half of their lives.

I know from my own parents how important active older people are to a local community.

More than 70 percent of seniors are asking for more time. It is long overdue for Congress to listen and make sure that seniors have a prescription drug plan that works for them.

I think America may be growing up and accepting the fact that the bulk of life exists beyond 50. Because demographically... the vast population is over 50.

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

I wouldn't say they're neglected, but everybody is going to grow old and we should be looking after the older generation more than we do at the moment.

As the nation's elderly population grows, dozens of industries have tried to harness the political might of older Americans for corporate goals.

It's dishonest to say we're doing everything we can for our seniors when there is so much more we can.

We all understand that we are living longer, and we are more likely to spend more years as frail, elderly people who can't work. We also recognize that the wonderful advances in medicine also come with wonderful price tags. Those are things you can't budget around.

The prosperity of a country is in accordance with its treatment of the aged.

There is a sort of indifference to the problem of old age. Indifference in the face of a revolution in longevity.

No American should ever have to spend his golden years at the mercy of insurance companies.

The taxpayer base in the suburbs is going to be increasingly made up of an older cohort. They don’t care about schools. They care about making traffic signs readable and supporting services that will drive older people around when they stop being able to drive.

I think our elderly are forgotten sometimes.

As America is growing older, there are more and more families caring for older parents and grandparents, and it's extremely expensive.

As a member of the Senate Aging Committee, I've gone to bat for seniors by cracking down on senior fraud, combating price gouging by pharmaceutical companies, and pushing for wealthy individuals to contribute their fair share to Social Security.