Claiborne Pell
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"Claiborne de Borda Pell" was a U.S. Senator from Rhode Island, serving six terms from 1961 to 1997, and was best known as the sponsor of the Pell Grant, which provides student financial aid in the United States/financial aid funding to American college students. A member of the Democratic Party (United States)/Democratic Party, he was Rhode Island's longest serving senator.

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People who leave Washington do so by way of the box... ballet or coffin.

The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people.

The secret is to always let the other man have your way.

In politics, you must let the other person have your way.

My opponent called me a cream puff. Well, I rushed out and got the baker's union to endorse me.