Quotes By Hubert H. Humphrey

There are those who say to you - we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late.

Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on.

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

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

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

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.

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.

Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage, and he expects your absolute loyalty.

Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

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

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

Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.

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.

Today we know that World War II began not in 1939 or 1941 but in the 1920's and 1930's when those who should have known better persuaded themselves that they were not their brother's keeper.

A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.

We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

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.

To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.

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

Never give in and never give up.

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

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

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.

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