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.

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that from age to age nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes but you don't change at all. And that of course causes great confusion.