Virginia Foxx Quotes

Most people understand life expectancy has changed since Social Security started in 1937 when folks lived to be 59 years old. Today, they live to be 77 years old.

People over 100 are the fastest-growing group in America. People soon will be working 'til 100 - some because they have to - and living 'til 125 or even 135. What do I know, I'm just a weatherman, but I've made a hobby of studying this, and it's phenomenal.

Latinas' life expectancies are relatively long. When a current retiree hits 65 and begins receiving her benefit check, she can expect to live another 22 years. That life expectancy is higher than white women or men.

I think one of the important things that's happened in the course of the century is that life expectancy has doubled.

Advances in science and medical research and public health policies have meant that life expectancy for Australians is one of the highest in the world.

One could look over the past century and ask oneself, has the increased longevity been good, bad or indifferent?

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

I don't feel that 40 is anything these days. Our life expectancy is so much greater that maybe 50 is the new 40.

It's paradoxical, that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone.

Our population is headed for a stable plateau, which means an aging population.

Demography is changing us as we are older societies, we're living longer. How the generations balance each other out, how that affects education and health care.

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

While prosperity and longevity arrive together, they cannot be treated the same. With greater wealth, people in Asia may not have to work as many hours as they do now. But living longer means they will have to work more years, not fewer.

People are going to be living quite soon for 100 years. Our idea of how a family works no longer applies. It's no good saying you're going to have children for 15 years and then you're going to retire and have hobbies, because you've got 40 more years to go after 60 and you're in good health until 90 or something.

By the year 2020, the year of perfect vision, the old will outnumber the young.

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.

While eliminating smallpox and curtailing cholera added decades of life to vast populations, cures for the chronic diseases of old age cannot have the same effect on life expectancy. A cure for cancer would be miraculous and welcome, but it would lead to only a three-year increase in life expectancy at birth.

Older people may have always existed throughout history, but they were rare.

In 1820, the average lifespan was just 26 years. Twenty-six years!

In 1990, Howard Friedman and Leslie Martin, two psychologists at the University of California, Riverside, embarked on a research project within a research project, seeking answers to the question, 'What makes for a long life?'

The reduction of the death rate is the principal statistical expression and index of human social progress.

When we live longer, we must work a little bit longer.

As more people live longer, we can expect there to be additional costs for society.

Live to 97 and you can do anything.

Voters should be assured that I absolutely do not support raising the retirement age for Social Security.