Top 46 Quotes by Hubert H. Humphrey

The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.

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

Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.

American public opinion is like an ocean, it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon.

The President is the people's lobbyist.

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.

It is not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.

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.

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.

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