164 Quotes by Hubert H. Humphrey

I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known.

Never give in and never give up.

A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.

This is a little bit like busting a street drug dealer to get at the Colombian drug cartel,

There are incalculable resources in the human spirit, once it has been set free.

The heroes of the world community are not those who withdraw when difficulties ensue, not those who can envision neither the prospect of success nor the consequence of failure -- but those who stand the heat of battle, the fight for world peace through the United Nations.

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

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

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