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
Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true.
American public opinion is like an ocean, it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon.
To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed.
I had no money to buy books, so between classes and work, I haunted the library. I even tutored in French with a sliding scale of payment: twenty dollars for an A, fifteen for a B, ten for a C, five for a D.
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.
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.
It the Senator can find in Title VII any language which provides that an employer will have to hire on the basis of percentage or quota related to color, race, religion, or national origin, I will start eating the pages one after another, because it is not in there.
And it is to these rights - the right of law and order, the right of life, the right of liberty, the right of a job, the right of a home in a decent neighborhood, and the right to an education - it is to these rights that I pledge my life and whatever capacity and ability I have.
I am absolutely disgusted that anyone would put thousands of America's boys at risk just to win a Political Campaign.
This is the first generation in all of recorded history that can do something about the scourge of poverty. We have the means to do it. We can banish hunger from the face of the earth.
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.
Our greatest songs are still unsung.