Claude Pepper Quotes

United States, Politician
September 8, 1900 – May, 30, 1989.

Claude Denson Pepper 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.

Life is like riding a bicycle: you don't fall off unless you stop pedaling.

Claude Pepper
- Life
- Stop
- Fall
The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.

Claude Pepper
- Thinking
- Mistake

If more politicians in this country were thinking about the next generation instead of the next election, it might be better for the United States and the world.

Claude Pepper
- World
- Thinking
- Country
One has the right to be wrong in a democracy.

Claude Pepper
- Democracy
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
- Age
- Value
- Green
Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.

Claude Pepper
- Racism