Paul Wellstone Quotes

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Paul Wellstone

Profession : Politician

Birth : July 21, 1944

The people of this country, not special interest big money, should be the source of all political power.

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Above and beyond the question of how to grow the economy there is a legitimate concern about how to grow the quality of our lives.

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As free citizens in a political democracy, we have a responsibility to be interested and involved in the affairs of the human community, be it at the local or the global level.

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I think the future also will not belong to those who are cynical or those who stand on the sidelines.

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I was talking about no nukes, the farm crisis. People said that wasn't stuff that a state auditor was supposed to be talking about. Maybe they were right.

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I'm short, I'm Jewish and I'm a liberal.

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It is the belief that extremes and excesses of inequality must be reduced so that each person is free to fully develop his or her full potential. This is why we take precious time out of our lives and give it to politics.

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Politics is not about money.

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Politics is not predictions and politics is not observations. Politics is what we do. Politics is what we do, politics is what we create, by what we work for, by what we hope for and what we dare to imagine.

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The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power which is the principal threat to our democracy.

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The first task in teaching is to bring to consciousness what the students already believe by virtue of their personal experiences about themselves and society.

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The kind of national goal we ought to be thinking about is way beyond national product - it is how do we as a nation help our children be the best kinds of people they could possibly be?

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The only way to change is to vote. People are responsible.

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There is a major ingredient missing from our perception of how changes are brought about; that ingredient is power.

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We can and must move U.S. politics forward by means of committed participation.

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We can remake the world daily.

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What makes community organizing especially attractive is the faith it places in the ability of the poor to make decisions for themselves.

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What the poor, the weak, and the inarticulate desperately require is power, organization, and a sense of identity and purpose, not rarefied advice of political scientists.

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When too many Americans don't vote or participate, some see apathy and despair. I see disappointment and even outrage. And I believe that out of this frustration can come hope and action.

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Without trying, I'm different.

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