Claude Pepper Quotes

Society tells you that when you're old you have to retire. You have to defy that.

People do not retire. They are retired by others.

No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know.

When the social security age was first established as 65, most people didn't live to be that old.

When you get on the back side of your 60s, most people aren't working.

I am philosophically opposed to raising the retirement age. I misspoke and said I was not philosophically opposed.

I would not vote to raise the retirement age to 70 because there are just too many Americans that work hard all their lives and just simply physically couldn't work until they are 70.

The great thing about show business is that there's no mandatory retirement age.

I'm retarded - I mean I'm retired.

In most of America, it seems you don't matter if you're not between 25 and 50.

A man has a birthright to be tired and retired. I am retired completely.

If Republicans eliminate Medicare, America will become a country in which you can never retire - and once you physically can no longer work, you are desperately poor until you die.

People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.

As far as I'm concerned, ageing is humanity's worst problem, by some serious distance.

Many seniors understand that Social Security is social insurance as opposed to a program where we put money aside for our own retirement. But most elderly individuals think they're getting their money back. So it isn't selfishness as much as a misunderstanding.

Being seventy is not a sin.

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.

I don't have this feeling that 70 is really old.

I hope to work till I'm an old lady.

So many people feel that once you reach a certain age then it's time for you to retire from a sport you love. I don't think that's true at all. I think age should not dictate that.

I'm 78, I'm on my pension in Ireland, and all that good stuff.

Usually when a woman is 60, it's over.

Retire? I don't know what that word means. As long as a man is able to work and he's productive out there and he feels good - keep at it.

We shouldn't be put out to pasture just because we've reached somebody's idea of retirement, which was certainly happening in Australia, and I think elsewhere as well.

Work ethic has always been stressed in my family. My dad is going to be 80 years old and he still works part time. My mom just retired a couple years ago and she's in her mid- to late 70s.