Quotes By Hubert H. Humphrey

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

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

The President is the people's lobbyist.

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

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

Never give up on anybody.

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.

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

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.

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.

It is not enough to merely defend democracy. To defend it may be to lose it; to extend it is to strengthen it. Democracy is not property; it is an idea.

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.

Never answer a question from a farmer.

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