"The Senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty good detour."
-Hubert H. Humphrey
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"The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.“
-Hubert H. Humphrey
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"Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart."
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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