164 Quotes by Hubert H. Humphrey

It the Senator can find in Title VII any language which provides that an employer will have to hire on the basis of percentage or quota related to color, race, religion, or national origin, I will start eating the pages one after another, because it is not in there.

Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society.

We cannot use a double standard for measuring our own and other people's policies. Our demands for democratic practices in other lands will be no more effective than the guarantees of those practiced in our own country.

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.

Just be what you are and speak from your guts and heart - it's all a person has.

I learned more about the economy from one South Dakota dust storm that I did in all my years of college.

We need an America with the wisdom of experience. But we must not let America grow old in spirit.

The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy.

Equality means equality for all- no exceptions, no 'yes, buts', no asterisked footnotes imposing limits.