I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
America's Older Americans add great value to our Nation.
America is a young country with an old mentality.
Entire generations of Americans have come of age since the ancient time when the president's power was constrained by a duty of candor to the American people.
It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
The fortunes of the entire world may well ride on the ability of young Americans to face the responsibilities of an old America gone mad.
As I look around, I get this sinking feeling that we're off track, that there's something sick in the soul of our country. I examine the fruit that's hanging on the tree of America, and I can see that it's rotting. And that concerns me deeply.
You don't have to be old in America to say of a world you lived in: That world is gone.
When people say this isn't the America they grew up in, they're right. Nobody gets to grow old in the America they grew up in.
America is remarkable, don't you think so? When I came to Washington, I was twelve years old. I spoke English with an English accent. It was assumed that it would go on in that way.
We don't grow older, we grow riper.