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" Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table. "
Hubert H. Humphrey
Leadership
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" 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. "
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" To err is human. To blame someone else is politics. "
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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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" Today we know that World War II began not in 1939 or 1941 but in the 1920's and 1930's when those who should have known better persuaded themselves that they were not their brother's keeper. "
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" Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society. "
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" The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it. "
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" We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost. "
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Real
" 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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" 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. "
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" To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed. "
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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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" I learned more about the economy from one South Dakota dust storm that I did in all my years of college. "
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" It is not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left. "
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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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