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

It is not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left..

What do we want for people? Human dignity, personal expression and fulfillment, justice, freedom..

This is the first generation in all of recorded history that can do something about the scourge of poverty. We have the means to do it. We can banish….

Hubert Humphrey with kids"Be clear where America stands. Human brotherhood and equal opportunity for every man, woman, and child, we are committed to….

The President is the peoples lobbyist..

If I believe in something, I will fight for it, with all I have. But I do not demand all or nothing. I would rather get something than nothing..

It is all too easy for a society to measure itself against some abstract philosophical principle or political slogan. But in the end, there must rema….

When the dignity of one person is denied, all of us are denied..

To err is human. To blame someone else is politics..

In this time of national crises...per haps we would do well to spend a few minutes in considering projects which grace and embellish the earth, inste….

There is no such thing as an acceptable level of unemployment, because hunger is not acceptable, poverty is not acceptable, poor health is not accept….

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man..

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

The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously..

People in places many of us never heard of, whose names we can't pronounce or even spell, are speaking up for themselves. They speak in languages we ….

We live by hope. We do not ever get all we want when we want it. But we have to believe that someday, somehow, some way, it will be better and that w….

Here we are the way politics ought to be in America; the politics of happiness, the politics of purpose and the politics of joy..

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

The President has only 190 million bosses. The Vice President has 190 million and one..

I believe that each of us can make a difference. That what is wrong can be made right. That people possess the basic wisdom and goodness to govern th….