“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 

Claude Denson Pepper (September 8, 1900 – May 30, 1989) was an American politician of the Democratic Party, and a spokesman forleft-liberalism and the elderly. In foreign policy he shifted from pro-Soviet in the 1940s to anti-Communist in the 1950s. He represented Floridain the United States Senate from November 4, 1936, to January 3, 1951, and the Miami area in the United States House of Representativesfrom January 3, 1963 until his death on May 30, 1989.