Claude Pepper
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"Claude Denson Pepper" was an United States/American politician of the United States Democratic Party/Democratic Party, and a spokesman for Left liberalism/left-liberalism and the elderly. In foreign policy he shifted from pro-Soviet in the 1940s to anti-Communist in the 1950s. He represented Florida in the United States Senate from November 4, 1936, to January 3, 1951, and the Miami area in the United States House of Representatives from January 3, 1963 until his death on May 30, 1989.

In 2000, the United States Postal Service issued a 33ยข Distinguished Americans series postage stamp honoring Pepper.

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The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.

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.

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.

One has the right to be wrong in a democracy.

Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.