Political Quotes

“the whole concept of aging is changing dramatically in this country. It was not very long ago that people in their sixties and their seventies, because of the state of the health care, they became feeble a lot faster and were not as vital as seniors are today. That trend can only continue. My mother and father are 78 years of age, and I admit this with a certain amount of hesitancy, but it was just about a year and a half ago that my mother and father and I, on a dare from my father, jumped out of an airplane at 13,000 feet and went skydiving together. That is pretty good for a couple of septuagenarians. I think the baby boom generation expects to extend its years of vitality even farther, and we expect to be still physically able and fit and enjoying life well into our seventies and our eighties and our nineties, and of course the fastest growing segment of the population is those above 100 years of age. Nothing more than the advancement of these miracle medicines, these miracle pharmaceutical products, these coming biological products that will result from the human genome study will continue to enhance the vitality of our elderly. That is why, again, we have this golden opportunity here to make the golden ages more golden for generations yet to come, and I look forward to working with my colleague and, hopefully, we will get it done this year.”