Words matter. These are the best Paul Wellstone Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
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.
If we don’t fight hard enough for the things we stand for, at some point we have to recognize that we don’t really stand for them.
Politics is not about money.
There is a major ingredient missing from our perception of how changes are brought about; that ingredient is power.
The people of this country, not special interest big money, should be the source of all political power.
We can remake the world daily.
The only way to change is to vote. People are responsible.
Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities.
Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning.
Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia.
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.
We can and must move U.S. politics forward by means of committed participation.
Politics is not about power.
Politics is about the improvement of people’s lives. It’s about advancing the cause of peace and justice in our country and the world. Politics is about doing well for the people.
The future will belong to those who have passion and are willing to work hard to make our country better.
I represent the Democratic wing of the Democratic party.
We all do better when we all do better.
What makes community organizing especially attractive is the faith it places in the ability of the poor to make decisions for themselves.
I’m short, I’m Jewish and I’m a liberal.
Our politics are our deepest form of expression: they mirror our past experiences and reflect our dreams and aspirations for the future.
If a teacher does not involve himself, his values, his commitments, in the course of discussion, why should the students?
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.
Never separate the life you live from the words you speak.
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.
A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people’s lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail.
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.
Politics isn’t about big money or power games; it’s about the improvement of people’s lives.
The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy.
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?
