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Politics
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The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.
-Hubert Humphrey
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A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.
-Hubert Humphrey
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Pollution
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Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society.
-Hubert Humphrey
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Poverty
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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.
-Hubert Humphrey
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Presidency
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The President is the people's lobbyist.
-Hubert Humphrey
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Profit
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Profit and morality are a hard combination to beat.
-Hubert Humphrey
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Propaganda
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Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true.
-Hubert Humphrey
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Reality
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To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed.
-Hubert Humphrey
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Relatives
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Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law.
-Hubert Humphrey
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Respect
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I think the worst thing this nation could do for humanity would be to leave any uncertainty as to our will, our purpose and our capacity to carry out our purpose.
-Hubert Humphrey
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Revolution
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History teaches us that the great revolutions aren't started by people who are utterly down and out, without hope and vision. They take place when people begin to live a little better -- and when they see how much yet remains to be achieved.
-Hubert Humphrey
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Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts -- it's what you do with what you have left.
-Hubert Humphrey
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Rights
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There are those who say to you -- we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late.
-Hubert Humphrey
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Satisfaction
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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 Humphrey
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Service
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...the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; those who are in the shadows of life; the sick, the needy and the handicapped.
-Hubert Humphrey, from his last speech, Washington, D.C., November 1, 1977
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Solitude
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National isolation breeds national neurosis.
-Hubert Humphrey
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War
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For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.
-Hubert Humphrey
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Wilderness
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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 Humphrey
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Books by and about Hubert Humphrey