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
It is always a risk to speak to the press: they are likely to report what you say.
My philosophy has always been that benefits should percolate up rather than trickle down.
The President is the peoples lobbyist.
The time has arrived in America for the Democratic Party to get out of the shadows of states rights and walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights
There are those who say to you - we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late.
Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.
Slumism is the pent-up anger of people living on the outside of affluence. Slumism is decay of structure and deterioration of the human spirit. Slumism is a virus which spreads through the body politic. As other "isms," it breeds disorder and demagoguery and hate.
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 good old days were never that good, believe me. The good new days are today, and better days are coming tomorrow. Our greatest songs are still unsung.
Liberalism, above all, means emancipation - emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination, from poverty.
Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.
As we begin to comprehend that the earth itself is a kind of manned spaceship hurtling through the infinity of space ~ it will seem increasingly absurd that we have not better organized the life of the human family.
To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.
Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law.