Broderick Crawford Quotes

I'm too young for Medicare and too old for women to care.

I am proposing that every person over sixty-five years of age be spared the darkness of sickness without hope.

In America, the old are neglected.

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

Old, in America, is not a good thing to be.

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

We're saying no changes for Medicare for people above the age of 55. And in order to keep the promise to current seniors who've already retired and organized their lives around this program, you have to reform it for the next generation.

Old age treats freelance writers pretty gently.

Now there is this whole terror about getting old. Today, that fascination with youth is overrated. What's so special about being young? I just say that because I'm old.

And because of these programs like Medicare, Medicare prescription drugs, Social Security, we now have the healthiest and wealthiest group of senior citizens that the world has ever seen. This is a continuing commitment to that.

I get all fired up about aging in America.

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

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.

I think our elderly are forgotten sometimes.

I'll always stand up for America's seniors so they can age with dignity.

In the high-income English-speaking world, the elderly get treated very well indeed.

Growing old is not all sweetness and light. Old women especially are invisible.

How good we all are, in theory, to the old; and how in fact we wish them to wander off like old dogs, die without bothering us, and bury themselves.

I got a gerontology certificate a million years ago along with my law degree, so I've been interested in older people for many years. Some people grow up with a lot of kids around, but I just grew up with a lot of old people.

Medicare and Social Security have created the healthiest and most financially secure generation of senior citizens in American history.

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

Just as the blurring between childhood and adulthood has produced the kidult, so the stretching of middle into old age has fostered another peculiar chimera: septuagenarians with apoptosis sporting the depeche mode.

We treat old people so badly. There is nothing easy about 80.

Women would be disproportionately affected by the privatization of social security. It is one of the most important safety nets for American women in old age, or in times of disability, to insure financial income for their families.

I think old people should just be old and go away.