Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
22
AUTHOR:
John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917–63)
QUOTATION:
This increase in the life span and in the number of our senior citizens presents this Nation with increased opportunities: the opportunity to draw upon their skill and sagacity—and the opportunity to provide the respect and recognition they have earned. It is not enough for a great nation merely to have added new years to life—our objective must also be to add new life to those years.
ATTRIBUTION:
President JOHN F. KENNEDY, special message to the Congress on the needs of the nation’s senior citizens, February 21, 1963.—Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963, p. 189.
