The President is the peoples lobbyist.
Interpretation
The President represents the interests and needs of the people to the government.
This quote emphasizes the role of the President as a representative and advocate for the citizens. Hubert H. Humphrey suggests that the President's primary responsibility is to ensure that the voice of the public is heard in political decision-making, advocating for their needs and concerns within the government framework, much like a lobbyist who champions specific interests.
In practice
In a speech about civic engagement, one might say, 'As Hubert H. Humphrey wisely noted, the President is the people's lobbyist, reminding us of our responsibility to be heard.'
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.
Much of our American progress has been the product of the individual who had an idea; pursued it; fashioned it; tenaciously clung to it against all odds; and then produced it, sold it, and profited from it.
We need an America with the wisdom of experience. But we must not let America grow old in spirit.
You cannot go around and keep score. If you keep score on the good things and the bad things, you'll find out that you're a very miserable person. God gave man the ability to forget, which is one of the greatest attributes you have. Because if you remember everything that's happened to you, you generally remember that which is the most unfortunate.
Here we are the way politics ought to be in America; the politics of happiness, the politics of purpose and the politics of joy.
The pursuit of peace resembles the building of a great cathedral. It is the work of a generation. In concept it requires a mater-architect; in execution, the labors of many.
If we’re going to have arguments, let’s have arguments — but let’s make them debates worthy of this body and worthy of this country.
Only armchair politicians are immune from committing mistakes. Errors are inherent in political action.
We've come to be consumed by a 24-hour, slash-and-burn, negative ad, bickering, small-minded politics that doesn't move us forward. Sometimes one side is up and the other side is down. But there's no sense that they are coming together in a common-sense, practical, nonideological way to solve the problems that we face.
Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
Socialism is the democratisation of every level of society, or it is nothing. It is based on an understanding that the concentration of wealth and power leaves democracy hollowed out, and that simply trooping to a polling station every few years is an insufficient counterweight to the behemoths of global capital.
It's the Labour Government that have brought us record peacetime taxation. They've got the usual Socialist disease - they've run out of other people's money.
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