Quotes by Senior I am here for my mother and all the Americans who are forced to spend time arguing with health insurance companies instead of focusing on getting well. I am here for the millions of lives that will be touched and in some cases, saved, by health insurance reform. I am here for the small businesses who are forced to choose between health care and hiring. I am here for the seniors who are unable to afford the prescriptions they need. Barack Obama senior get-well mother We can't get to the $4 trillion in savings that we need by just cutting the 12 percent of the budget that pays for things like medical research and education funding and food inspectors and the weather service. And we can't just do it by making seniors pay more for Medicare. Barack Obama senior cutting education We had a farewell dinner for some of my senior staff, and generally everybody likes to talk about how cool I was. Barack Obama dinner senior farewell People who have health insurance are benefiting in all sorts of ways that they may not be aware of, everything from no longer having lifetime limits on the claims that they can make to seniors getting prescription drug discounts under Medicare to free mammograms. Barack Obama senior drug people I think that when it comes to Social Security, all of us want to make sure that our senior citizens can retire with dignity and respect. And everybody has to be open-minded in thinking how do we firm up a system that, in fact, is going to be in difficulty in the coming years. Barack Obama senior years thinking I knew of Senator [George] Mitchell because he was very close friends with who was soon to be the senior senator, Paul Sarbanes. Paul Sarbanes and George Mitchell were kind of pals together. Barbara Mikulski pals senior together Our seniors' retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market. Barbara Mikulski senior political retirement When one gets old and they are sick, there are not many things they can count on but they should be able to count on Social Security. Our seniors' retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market. Barbara Mikulski senior sick retirement When we stand up for America, we stand up for what America stands for, which is a safety net for our seniors and really helping our families be able to help themselves Barbara Mikulski senior safety america My senior year of high school, I was voted Wittiest. So, several years later, I decided to try my hand at writing humor to see if I could be witty enough to make some money. Barbara Park senior writing witty Bush senior used to say that we have more will than wallet. So he urged the country to attack poverty with a thousand points of light, none of which could be eaten. Barney Frank senior light country I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music. Barry White senior birthday school I like the word OLD. Not senior, that's for proms. Older? Older than whom? 'Old' is honorable and ripe Bel Kaufman prom honorable senior What if?' history is a tricky game, but there is no doubt that the senior planners of D-Day - including Eisenhower and the British general Bernard Montgomery - believed that the Double Cross operation had played a pivotal role in the victory. Ben Macintyre what-if senior games Basketball was always my first love, but once I had a good year as a senior, I figured the next step was to play college football. Ben Roethlisberger senior basketball football Medicare debates in Congress should result in better Medicare benefits for all our nation's seniors. We're not asking for special treatment for rural America, just a fair deal. Bennie Thompson senior special america I fear very much for our kids, for low income people and for seniors. Bernie Sanders senior kids people 20 million people thrown off of health insurance, prescription drug prices raising for seniors, privatization of Medicare: devastation. And we've got to fight back against that. Bernie Sanders senior fighting people I have one of the strongest records in fighting for senior citizens. I led the effort to prevent cuts to Social Security. But I think for some seniors, they remember the "evil empire" of the Soviet Union. They conflated the term "democratic socialism" with communism. Bernie Sanders senior cutting fighting When the average Social Security benefit is $1328 a month, and more than one-third of our senior citizens rely on Social Security for Virtually all of their income, our job is to expand benefits, not cut them. Bernie Sanders senior cutting jobs «1234567891011»