Surely anyone who has ever been elected to public office understands that one commodity above all others, namely the trust and confidence of the people, is fundamental in maintaining a free and open political system.

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"The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love."

- Hubert H. Humphrey

Love

"It is not enough to merely defend democracy. To defend it may be to lose it; to extend it is to strengthen it. Democracy is not property; it is an idea."

- Hubert H. Humphrey

Belief

"The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it."

- Hubert H. Humphrey

Relationships

"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."

- Hubert H. Humphrey

Hard Work

"Never answer a question from a farmer."

- Hubert H. Humphrey

Insight

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"The worth of a person lies in their character, not in their looks."

- Beauty and the Beast

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"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"Be content to act, and leave the talking to others."

- Baltasar Gracian

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"Fake people have an image to maintain. Real people just don’t care."

- Hachiman Hikigaya

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"What is right? What is wrong? In this mixed up world, deciding what is right and wrong is not easy. You can’t just go by somebody else’s rules. If you let yourself be controlled like that, you’ll just become a puppet that can’t make decisions on its own. You have to live by your rules."

- Gintoki Sakata

Integrity