Hubert Humphrey Quotes

“You people voted for Hubert Humphrey and killed Jesus!”

— Hunter S. Thompson

Perhaps the cruelest thing ever said of Hubert Humphrey was that he had the soul of a vice president.

— Susan Estrich

“Just be what you are and speak from your guts and heart—it’s all a man has. —Hubert Humphrey”

— Robyn Carr

You remind me of Hubert Humphrey. You talk too much

— Ernest Hollings

“The senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then…

— Joe Biden

Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.

— Barry Goldwater

“Hubert Humphrey is a treacherous, gutless old ward-heeler who should be put in a goddamn bottle and sent out with the Japanese…

— Hunter S. Thompson

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

— Hubert H. Humphrey

According to Gandhi, the seven sins are wealth without works, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity,…

— Jimmy Carter

After one of his [Hubert Humphrey] long-winded harangues I suggested he had probably been vaccinated with a phonograph needle. He responded by…

— Barry Goldwater

Well, you have to remember that until 1948, when Hubert Humphrey and others forced the Democratic Party to adopt a new policy…

— William A. Rusher

Prior to civil rights, the Democratic Party had been defined by an increasingly untenable alliance of ideological opposites - integrationist Northern liberals…

— Steve Kornacki

I am a Minnesotan, and not just because I root for the Vikings and the Twins. I like the Minnesota-nice sensibility. I…

— Al Franken

“... in an airport in '64, Goldwater said, 'Well, keep punching, Hubert' during a chance meeting there. By the end of 1977,…

— Joe Biden

“And what kind of sick and twisted impulse would cause a professional sportswriter to deliver a sermon from the Book of Revelations…

— Hunter S. Thompson

The view that we know less than we thought we knew about how to change the human condition came, in time, to…

— James Q. Wilson