“As a member of the Senate Aging Committee, I've gone to bat for senior...” — Kirsten Gillibrand Quote

“As a member of the Senate Aging Committee, I've gone to bat for seniors by cracking down on senior fraud, combating price gouging by pharmaceutical companies, and pushing for wealthy individuals to contribute their fair share to Social Security.”

“Throughout my career I've fought for the rights of women as full and equal members of society.”

“I have always stood up to protect women's access to safe and legal abortion, birth control and health care at Planned Parenthood.”

“Modern medicine has presented us with a Faustian bargain: Our aging bodies can bankrupt our children and grandchildren. We have run into the 'law of diminishing returns' in health care, where we are often doing more and more, with higher and higher technology, at more and more cost, for less and less benefit.”

“The Boomers will eventually have to accept that it is not possible to stay forever young or to stop aging. But it is possible, by committing to show up for others in community after community, to earn a measure of immortality.”