Quotes by Hubert H. Humphrey

The President is the people's lobbyist.

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.

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

The time has arrived in America for the Democratic Party to get out of the shadows of states rights and walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights.

And it is to these rights – the right of law and order, the right of life, the right of liberty, the right of a job, the right of a home in a decent neighborhood, and the right to an education – it is to these rights that I pledge my life and whatever capacity and ability I have.

In life it isn’t what you’ve lost, it’s what you’ve got left that counts.

I am absolutely disgusted that anyone would put thousands of America’s boys at risk just to win a Political Campaign.

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

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.

I’ve never thought my speeches were too long; I’ve rather enjoyed them.