Quotes about Hubert H.

Lyndon B. Johnson

... my link to the bomb throwers.

Referring to then Senator Hubert H. Humphrey who was popular with the left wing of the Democratic party when Johnson was Majority Leader.

Kent Courtney

I don't see how otherwise well adjusted people can possibly ignore the fact that [Richard] Nixon is a dedicated internationalist who belongs to the same organization as Senator Jacob Javits and Vice-President Hubert Humphrey. The organization I mean is the Communist-accommodating Council on Foreign Relations whose aims and purposes ... are parallel to the long-range plans of the International Communist Conspiracy.

Lyndon B. Johnson

When I want your advice, I'll give it to you.

Lyndon B. Johnson

If you ever keep [Vice President] Hubert [Humphrey] waiting again, I'll kick your ass down that hall.

John F. Kennedy

Don’t confuse me with all that. Just tell me how to vote to help your farmers.

Lyndon B. Johnson

He cries too much.

Commenting on his Vice President Hubert H. Humphery:

Lyndon B. Johnson

Boys, I've just reminded Hubert that I've got his balls in my pocket.

Hubert H. Humphrey, the Vice President-elect, departed from his presidentially cleared text in giving a speech on education. The President was not happy with this independence:

Richard J. Daley

He didn't get enough votes.

When reporters asked him why Hubert Humphrey did not carry Illinois in the 1968 presidential election, His Honor replied:

Lyndon B. Johnson

Unless we have the Republicans joining us and helping us … we’ll have a mutiny in this goddamned country. So we’ve got to make this an American bill and not just a Democratic bill … It doesn’t do any good to have a law like the Volstead Act if you can’t enforce it

The Volstead Act was a law passed by Congress to enforce Prohibition in 1919. Very few people obeyed the law.

Hubert H. Quotes