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I would not vote to raise the retirement age to 70 because there are just too many Americans that work hard all their lives and just simply physically couldn't work until they are 70.

I never worked in an office in my life.

There is absolutely no way that I would enter that world. I would never run for office.

The older one gets in this profession, the more people there are with whom one would never work again.

There's something boring about people who have to go to an office for a living.

I'm not one of the people who have to be in public office.

It is estimated that raising the retirement age to 70 would cut the shortfall by about 36%. But this proposal has some drawbacks. Women and men who have worked jobs that require manual labor all of their lives may not physically be able to do work until they are 70 years old.

I couldn't sit in a chair in an office all day.

The presidency is not an office job.

As a member of the Aging Committee, I'm no stranger to fighting for America's seniors.