American public opinion is like an ocean, it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon.
- Hubert H. Humphrey Quote

Asia is rich in people, rich in culture and rich in resources. It is also rich in trouble.
- Hubert H. Humphrey Quote

Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law.
- Hubert H. Humphrey Quote

Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.
- Hubert H. Humphrey Quote

Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on.
- Hubert H. Humphrey Quote

Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.
- Hubert H. Humphrey Quote

I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humaneness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known.
- Hubert H. Humphrey Quote
I learned more about the economy from one South Dakota dust storm that I did in all my years of college.
- Hubert H. Humphrey Quote

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.
- Hubert H. Humphrey Quote

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.
- Hubert H. Humphrey Quote

It is not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.
- Hubert H. Humphrey Quote

Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.
- Hubert H. Humphrey Quote

Liberalism, above all, means emancipation - emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination, from poverty.
- Hubert H. Humphrey Quote

National isolation breeds national neurosis.
- Hubert H. Humphrey Quote

Never answer a question from a farmer.
- Hubert H. Humphrey Quote

Never give in and never give up.
- Hubert H. Humphrey Quote

Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true.
- Hubert H. Humphrey Quote

The difference between heresy and prophecy is often one of sequence. Heresy often turns out to have been prophecy when properly aged.
- Hubert H. Humphrey Quote

The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.
- Hubert H. Humphrey Quote

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.
- Hubert H. Humphrey Quote

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.
- Hubert H. Humphrey Quote

The President has only 190 million bosses. The Vice President has 190 million and one.
- Hubert H. Humphrey Quote

The President is the people's lobbyist.
- Hubert H. Humphrey Quote

The right to be heard does not autmatically include the right to be taken seriously.
- Hubert H. Humphrey Quote

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.
- Hubert H. Humphrey Quote

There are not enough jails, not enough police, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people.
- Hubert H. Humphrey Quote

There is in every American, I think, something of the old Daniel Boone - who, when he could see the smoke from another chimney, felt himself too crowded and moved further out into the wilderness.
- Hubert H. Humphrey Quote

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.
- Hubert H. Humphrey Quote

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.
- Hubert H. Humphrey Quote

Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society.
- Hubert H. Humphrey Quote

We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.
- Hubert H. Humphrey Quote