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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.
Hubert H. Humphrey
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I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university.
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To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.
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It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.
Hubert H. Humphrey
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Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.
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The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.
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Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.
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The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
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Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage, and he expects your absolute loyalty.
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American public opinion is like an ocean, it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon.
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This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves; not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
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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.
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A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.
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