Mandatory Retirement Quotes

This is a wonderful way to celebrate an 80th birthday... I wanted to be 65 again, but they wouldn't let me - Homeland Security.

… whenever a Judge or Justice of any Federal Court has reached the age of seventy and does not avail himself of the opportunity to retire on a pension, a new member shall be appointed by the President then in office, with the approval, as required by the Constitution, of the Senate of the United States.

We shouldn't be put out to pasture just because we've reached somebody's idea of retirement, which was certainly happening in Australia, and I think elsewhere as well.

I will not be on the bench until I am 60 or 65 years old.

I would not vote to raise the retirement age to 70 because there are just too many Americans that work hard all their lives and just simply physically couldn't work until they are 70.

My parents didn't want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty and that's the law.

I was hoping I could die of old age in the military, but they wouldnt let me.

Society tells you that when you're old you have to retire. You have to defy that.

That judges of important causes should hold office for life is not a good thing, for the mind grows old as well as the body.

The great thing about show business is that there's no mandatory retirement age.

Age-based retirement arbitrarily severs productive persons from their livelihood, squanders their talents, scars their health, strains an already overburdened Social Security system, and drives many elderly people into poverty and despair. Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.

I am philosophically opposed to raising the retirement age. I misspoke and said I was not philosophically opposed.

There are companies around today who will not hire over age 40, will not train after age 50 and who don’t want you around after age 60.

People do not retire. They are retired by others.

There are certain age limits on police officers. They'd have retired me out at 65.

I haven't had the time to say, 'I'm retiring.' But baseball says, 'You're retired.'

Perhaps you should say there should be mandatory retirement even of members of the court, members of the federal judiciary. I'm sure there can be questions about whether one does as good work when you get into your - you know, I'm 67.

I'm retiring because my time is up.

Nobody in this country is on Social Security because they made the decision when they were starting work at 14 that they wanted to trust some of their money with the government. The government took it out of their check whether they wanted them to or not.

My view is that at a certain age - and we can debate whether that age is 70-72 or 75 - members need to step off boards. As per the banking guidelines, that age for the director on a board today is 70.

No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know.

Maybe forced retirement isn't necessary after all.