Hubert H. Humphrey
Hubert H. Humphrey
Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr.was an American politician who served as the 38th Vice President of the United States under President Lyndon B. Johnson, from 1965 to 1969. Humphrey twice served in the United States Senate, representing Minnesota from 1949 to 1964 and 1971 to 1978. He was the nominee of the Democratic Party in the 1968 presidential election, losing to the Republican nominee, Richard M. Nixon...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth27 May 1911
CityWallace, SD
CountryUnited States of America
Hubert H. Humphrey quotes about
You can't hoot with the owls and then soar with the eagles
National isolation breeds national neurosis.
The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy.
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.
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.
I learned more about the economy from one South Dakota dust storm that I did in all my years of college.
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.
American public opinion is like an ocean, it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon.
Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on.
We will have to decide today whether we will design the future or resign ourselves to it.
When the dignity of one person is denied, all of us are denied.
Life's unfairness is not irrevocable; we can help balance the scales for others, if not always for ourselves.
My favorite sandwich is peanut butter, baloney, cheddar cheese, lettuce, and mayonnaise on toasted bread with catsup on the side.
We're going to expose what the tobacco companies knew and when they knew it. The American public is going to know how the tobacco industry manipulated kids, manipulated nicotine and manipulated public policy. Congress and the Department of Justice are going to know the pervasiveness of the fraud,