Claude D. Pepper

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 D. Pepper

Getting older is like riding a bicycle, if you don't keep pedalling, you'll fall.

— Claude D. Pepper

Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.

— Claude D. 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 D. Pepper

Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

— Claude D. Pepper

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

— Claude D. Pepper