Jane Birkin Quotes

Anything that we can do to improve the lives of elderly people is welcome so far as I am concerned.

Like all good citizens, the elderly and people with disabilities want to eradicate waste and fraud from government, but helping people with special needs meet their basic needs doesn't fit this description.

After-school tutoring programs, care for the elderly, shelters for the homeless, disaster relief work, and a variety of other services would all benefit from government funding.

The elderly are all someone's flesh and blood and we cannot just shut them in a cupboard and hand over the responsibility for taking care of them to the state.

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.

Many of my constituents are in their 80s, 90s, even 100, and our focus is ensuring that their needs can be provided for.

I will never turn Medicare into a voucher. No American should ever have to spend their golden years at the mercy of insurance companies. They should retire with the care and dignity they have earned.

As a longtime former resident of 15 years in Washington, I wish that everybody would stay off the Mall with their political cause so that we can get out there, you know, and play flag football or Frisbee, or walk the dog or something - you know, which is, you know, what the National Mall should be for, in my personal opinion.

I think all old folk's homes should have striptease. If I ran one I'd have a striptease every week.

As pressure grows to ease the financial burden on social security, pressure will also grow to eliminate the elderly and infirm to 'free up' more money for the 'fit' and those who contribute more than they take from society.

Sure, I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself someday.

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

A law providing for the payment of a pension of $50 per month to every needy person over sixty years of age who has lived in the State of California three years prior to the date of the coming into effect of the law.

Too many of our senior citizens are being forced to choose between neglecting their illnesses or being impoverished by them.

In advanced age, and in cases of disability from accident, natural infirmity or any other cause, the individual shall be supported by the colony, and receive every comfort which kindness can administer

A major goal of good government is that the people with gray hair should not be seen carrying burdens on the street.

After a lifetime of contributions to their families, their communities and our world, older Americans deserve to live free from harm and abuse.

Not everything in old age is grim. I haven't walked through an airport for years, and wheelchairs are the way to travel.

Education, transportation and health care was what I ran and won on. That's what we're going to be focused on.

I think we ought to provide much more dignity and respect to individuals who need some care and assistance, whether they are chronically ill or disabled or seniors, it's the right thing for this country to do.

In my opinion we don't take care of our disabled people well enough. We don't take care of our elderly well enough. We should honor them more than we do.

A medical revolution has extended the life of our elder citizens without providing the dignity and security those later years deserve.

Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space... On the one hand it's about shelter, but it's also about pleasure. The intention is to really carve out of a city civic spaces and the more it is accessible to a much larger mass in public and it's about people enjoying that space. That makes life that much better. If you think about housing, education, whether schools and hospitals, these are all very interesting projects because in the way you interpret this special experience.

I've always said when age or infirmity gets the better of me, I'm off to whichever civilised country lets the elderly die with dignity.

I will not rest until seniors get the cost-of-living adjustments they have earned and we lower the cost of prescription drugs.