#senior

We're saying no changes for Medicare for people above the age of 55. And in order to keep the promise to current seniors who've already retired and organized their lives around this program, you have to reform it for the next generation. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#age #already #around #changes #current

I think Mr. Clarke had a tendency to interfere too much with the activities of the CIA, and our leadership at the senior level let him interfere too much. So criticism from him I kind of wear as a badge of honor. ↗

— Michael Scheuer

#badge #cia #clarke #criticism #had

I had three jobs my junior and senior year of high school. I worked for the gas station and worked for a pizza place. ↗

— Curt Schilling

#gas station #had #high #high school #i

I was a quarterback in pee-wee football. I always wanted to be quarterback. They're the leaders, they make the calls. It didn't work out because I didn't have the arm. I also played wide receiver my senior year in high school. ↗

— Junior Seau

#always #arm #because #calls #football

Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country. ↗

— Norman Cousins

#country #every #government #partner #senior

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. ↗

— James T. Walsh

#citizens #commitment #continuing #ever #group

Among seniors, Social Security is the sole source of income for 26 percent of nonmarried women. ↗

— Diane Watson

#income #percent #security #seniors #social

And obviously, with hindsight now, now knowing what went on in the company, it would have been absolutely appropriate back then for us to have the chief executive of the company, most senior person in the United Kingdom, come and answer for the policy they were pursuing. And we ducked that, and frankly that's a failure of Parliament. ↗

— Tom A. Watson

#answer #appropriate #back #been #chief

In 2008, Barack Obama did get Democrats hyperventilating, whipped up to a creamy froth, while John McCain creaked ahead like a cranky granddad whom Republicans let move to the front of the buffet line, deferring to seniority, as they had in 1996, when Bob Dole turtled to the top of the ticket. ↗

— James Wolcott

#barack #barack obama #bob #buffet #cranky

When I was 27 years old, I organized legal aid clinics to help low-income seniors. It was a life-altering experience. ↗

— Ron Wyden

#clinics #experience #help #i #legal