Claude Denson Pepper (1900–89) was an American politician of the Democratic Party, and a spokesman for left-liberalism and the elderly. He represented Florida in the United States Senate from 1936 to 1951 and the Miami area in the United States House of Representatives from 1963 until 1989.
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The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they’ve been appointed and thinking they’ve been anointed.
—Claude Pepper
Topics: Politicians, Politics
Life is like riding a bicycle. You don’t fall off unless you stop pedaling.
—Claude Pepper
Topics: Living, Balance, Life, Moving on, Persistence
Age-based retirement arbitrarily severs productive persons from their livelihood, squanders their talents, scars their health, strains an already overburdened Social Security system, and drives many elderly people into poverty and despair. Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.
—Claude Pepper
Topics: Aging, Age
Getting older is like riding a bicycle, if you don’t keep peddling, you’ll fall.
—Claude Pepper
A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, “At my age, I don’t even buy green bananas.”
—Claude Pepper
Topics: Age
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