I am not aspiring to be a senior bureaucrat. It would limit my freedom.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I really hate bureaucracy and the idea that I'm not a free person.
Every once in a while, you live long enough to get the respect that people didn't want to give while you were trying to become a senior citizen.
In addition we also hire many senior citizens.
I will term-limit myself probably before I would have enough seniority to get a committee chairmanship.
We have an opportunity, but we have an obligation to senior citizens and to the younger people who are entering the workforce today to help ensure that they are going to be able to trust the government to have a workable program that benefits them as well.
The idea was never for me to be a career bureaucrat or career technocrat; it was more about where I could implement ideas and reform programs.
If I know I'm going to be in a little different system, I'm 39, I can plan for that; we can plan for that. Doing nothing, the status quo, is going to guarantee cuts for current seniors... reforming the system is the only way you shore it up.
I accept everything which is favorable for the people and the army; for myself, I wish to live in retirement.
I have a great affinity for senior citizens.
To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.