Rita Moreno Quotes

The AARP is a group of 3.8 million Americans bound together by a common love of airline discounts and insurance discounts.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Let's protect our social security and Medicare.

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

I don't think films about elderly people have been made very much.

I wouldn't say they're neglected, but everybody is going to grow old and we should be looking after the older generation more than we do at the moment.

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

As the nation's elderly population grows, dozens of industries have tried to harness the political might of older Americans for corporate goals.

It's critical - that the people that are benefiting today from Medicare and Social Security that they not see benefit reductions. It's awfully hard to tell someone who might be 82, that they've gotta go back to work, because their benefits are gonna be chopped. That's not gonna happen.

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.

It is self-evident that at sixty-five a man has done all that he is fit to do.

My home State of North Carolina ranks 12th in the United States for increased aging population and, according to a national report, 41st in overall health. According to this same report, individuals aged 50+ are the least healthy.