A biography for Hubert H. Humphreyhasn’t been written yet.
“There are those who say to you - we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late.”
“The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.”
“There is in every American, I think, something of the old Daniel Boone - who, when he could see the smoke from another chimney, felt himself too crowded and moved further out into the wilderness.”
“To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.”
“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.”
“We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.”
“The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy.”
“Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law.”