164 Quotes by Hubert H. Humphrey

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

We're going to expose what the tobacco companies knew and when they knew it. The American public is going to know how the tobacco industry manipulated kids, manipulated nicotine and manipulated public policy. Congress and the Department of Justice are going to know the pervasiveness of the fraud,

We hear every single day how terrible suicides are, automobile accidents are, how terrible cocaine and heroin are, murders, homicides, all of them. You put them all together, they don't come close to what this drug nicotine combined in tobacco does. Four hundred and forty thousand people a year, the equivalent of three 747s dropping out of the sky every single day of our lives. It's time we changed this folks,

We believe that to err is human. To blame it on someone else is politics.

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

It's disingenuous for the tobacco industry to claim that this PR stunt proves they are coming clean with the truth, ... It's like Dick Nixon taking credit for releasing the Watergate tapes.

Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.

The road to freedom, here and everywhere, begins in the classroom.

The ugliness of bigotry stands in direct contradiction to the very meaning of America.