Quotes By Hubert H. Humphrey

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.

The President has only 190 million bosses. The Vice President has 190 million and one.

Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law.

American public opinion is like an ocean, it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon.

The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

National isolation breeds national neurosis.

We believe that to err is human. To blame it on someone else is politics.

Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy.

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.

I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known.

Liberalism, above all, means emancipation - emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination, from poverty.

For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.

It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.

There is in every American, I think, something of the old Daniel Boone - who, when he could see the smoke from another chimney, felt himself too crowded and moved further out into the wilderness.

If there is dissatisfaction with the status quo, good. If there is ferment, so much the better. If there is restlessness, I am pleased. Then let there be ideas, and hard thought, and hard work. If man feels small, let man make himself bigger.

I learned more about the economy from one South Dakota dust storm that I did in all my years of college.

The President is the people's lobbyist.

Never give up on anybody.

I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university.

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.

Never give in and never give up.

To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed.

It is not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.

The Senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty good detour.

Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society.

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves; not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.

Asia is rich in people, rich in culture and rich in resources. It is also rich in trouble.