We are grossly wasting our energy resources and other precious raw materials as though their supply were infinite. We must even face the prospect of changing our basic ways of living. This change will either be made on our own initiative in a planned and rational way, or forced on us with chaos and suffering by the inexorable laws of nature.

I have a very personal relationship with Jesus Christ. It doesn't depend on the fact that he can walk on water.

We have no desire to be the world's policeman. But America does want to be the world's peacemaker.

You can not divorce religious belief and public service. I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.

We can choose to alleviate suffering. We can choose to work together for peace. We can make these changes - and we must.

I'm much more introspective than I was, say, thirty years ago.

According to Gandhi, the seven sins are wealth without works, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, and politics without principle. Well, Hubert Humphrey may have sinned in the eyes of God, as we all do, but according to those definitions of Gandhi's, it was Hubert Humphrey without sin.