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
If I believe in something, I will fight for it, with all I have. But I do not demand all or nothing. I would rather get something than nothing.
You cannot go around and keep score. If you keep score on the good things and the bad things, you'll find out that you're a very miserable person. God gave man the ability to forget, which is one of the greatest attributes you have. Because if you remember everything that's happened to you, you generally remember that which is the most unfortunate.
In life it isn't what you've lost, it's what you've got left that counts
The pursuit of peace resembles the building of a great cathedral. It is the work of a generation. In concept it requires a mater-architect; in execution, the labors of many.
Here we are the way politics ought to be in America; the politics of happiness, the politics of purpose and the politics of joy.
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.
A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.
To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed.
American public opinion is like an ocean, it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon.
Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true.
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.
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.
There are not enough jails, not enough police, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people.
Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on.