Elderly Rights Quotes

I should be a representative for AARP!

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

Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.

The number of old ladies who've beaten me up on TV is absolutely ridiculous.

More than 70 percent of seniors are asking for more time. It is long overdue for Congress to listen and make sure that seniors have a prescription drug plan that works for them.

Refuse to let an old person move into your body.

And the biggest, coldest power play of all in Obamacare came at the expense of the elderly.

There is a place for people 65 and older that no other age group can fit. We have nothing to lose. Some of us have a couple pennies. We can go out now and really be revolutionaries.

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

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

I want our party to step up its efforts to reflect and champion the concerns of everybody who has reached the second half of their lives.

As a member of the Senate Aging Committee, I've gone to bat for seniors by cracking down on senior fraud, combating price gouging by pharmaceutical companies, and pushing for wealthy individuals to contribute their fair share to Social Security.

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

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

It is a mortal sin to discard the elderly.

A commonplace of political rhetoric has it that the quality of a civilization may be measured by how it cares for its elderly. Just as surely, the future of a society may be forecast by how it cares for its young.

It's dishonest to say we're doing everything we can for our seniors when there is so much more we can.

Anybody over 40 is an older person. You better give them some respect.

Older people need someone who is older to be in the government.

It must become a right of every person to die of old age. And if we secure this right for ourselves, we can, coincidentally, assure it for the planet.

Today, elderly people are discarded when, in reality, they are the seat of wisdom of the society...the right to life means allowing people to live and not killing, allowing them to grow, to eat, to be educated, to be healed, and to be permitted to die with dignity.

The public is anold woman.Let her maunderand mumble.

Old age is never honored among us, but only indulged, as childhood is; and old men lose one of the most precious rights of man,--that of being judged by their peers.

Old age security is welfare for the aged.