Christopher Dodd Quotes

After a lifetime of working, raising families, and contributing to the success of this nation in countless other ways, senior citizens deserve to retire with dignity.

No one longs to live more than someone growing old.

You should be able to afford health care for your family. You should be able to retire with dignity and respect. And you should be able to give your children the kind of education that allows them to dream even bigger, go even farther and accomplish even more than you could ever imagine.

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

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

My neighbors aren't millionaires. They're retirees who depend on Social Security and Medicare.

The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate.

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

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

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.

Old age treats freelance writers pretty gently.

Retirement is fatal. Luckily, in my profession, you don't have to retire.

At our age, you don't want to stop.

Ageing's alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.

I really think that it's better to retire, in Uncle Earl's terms, when you still have some snap left in your garters.

You spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young.

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

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

We all wish to reach a ripe old age, but none of us are prepared to admit that we are already there.

Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.

I'm in no hurry to get old. But when I do, I'll be out to enjoy every last minute. I see myself at 90 in some nursing home, waving my walking stick about as I jive to Gene Vincent records.

My parents are retired, basically.

I guess maybe when you get past 70, other people start asking you how you feel.

I think it’s a nutty idea to fool around with the Social Security system and run the risk of hurting the people who have been saving all their lives…. It may be a new idea but it is a dumb one.

In retirement there are no ranks...we are all ‘have-beens’ together: