Hubert H. Humphrey Quotations | Page 3

The Senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty good detour.

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

To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed.

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

Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true.

If there is dissatisfaction with the status quo, good. If there is ferment, so much the better. If there is restlessness, I am pleased. Then let there be ideas, and hard thought, and hard work. If man feels small, let man make himself bigger.

In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.

There are not enough jails, not enough police, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people.

Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on.

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