“It’s fair to say that 80 percent of the world’s problems involve old men hanging on.”

Barack Obama:

It’s fair to say that 80 percent of the world’s problems involve old men hanging on who are afraid of death and insignificance, and they won’t let go. They build pyramids, and they put their names on everything and they get very anxious about it.

Mark Elibert, via Complex:

The critique is consistent with Obama’s past comments. Back in 2019, he told a private audience in Singapore that “usually old people, usually old men, not getting out of the way” drive much of the world’s dysfunction.