Quotes By Hubert H. Humphrey

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.

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.

Never give up on anybody.

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

Never give in and never give up.

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

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.

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.

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

Never answer a question from a farmer.

Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.

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

In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.

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.

The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.

There are incalculable resources in the human spirit, once it has been set free.

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.

Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true.

There are not enough jails, not enough police, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people.

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

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