Quotes By Hubert H. Humphrey

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on.

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.

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

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.

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.