Paul Wellstone Quotes

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• 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.

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  Country, Peace, People

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• We all do better, when we all do better.

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  Attitude

  "Sheet Metal Workers Speech". www.wellstone.org. September 1999.

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• 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.

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  Freedom, Fighting, Thinking

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• Politics is not about power. Politics is not about money. Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning. Politics is about the improvement of people's lives.

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  Winning, People, Power Politics

  "Honoring Paul Wellstone's Legacy: Fighting Like Hell for Health Care Reform" by Mike Elk, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 14, 2009.

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• Never separate the life you live from the words you speak.

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  Integrity, Inspiration, Character

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• The future will not belong to those who sit on the sidelines. The future will not belong to the cynics. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

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  Dream, Believe, Future

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• I dare to imagine a country where every child I hold in my hands, are all God's children, regardless of the color of their skin, regardless of whether they're boy or girl, regardless of religion, regardless of rich or poor, that every child I hold in my hands, will have the same chance to reach her full potential or his full potential. That is the goodness of our country. That is the essence of the American dream.

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  Girl, Dream, Country

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• 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.

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  People, Doe, Arrogant

  Paul Wellstone (2001). “The Conscience of a Liberal: Reclaiming the Compassionate Agenda”, p.209, Random House

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• Politics is not left, right or center ... It's about improving people's lives.

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  People, Improving, Left

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• Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia. What we seek is more simply to improve the quality of human life while at the same time respecting the natural environment which sustains it: 'Not a heaven on earth but a better earth on earth.' This is not at all a timid agenda, far from it. The work ahead of us is enormous!

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  Perfect, Political, Heaven

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

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  Country, Money, People

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• Sometimes, the only realists are the dreamers

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  Dream, Dreamer, Sometimes

  Paul Wellstone (2001). “The Conscience of a Liberal: Reclaiming the Compassionate Agenda”, p.8, Random House

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• I emphasize self-esteem, self-confidence, and dignity, not as an ideal, but as a real test of community organization. Without leadership development, community organizations do not have staying power.

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  Real, Self Esteem, Self Confidence

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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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  Politics, Imagine, Predictions

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• The future will belong to those who have passion and are willing to work hard to make our country better

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  Country, Hard Work, Passion

  Paul Wellstone (2001). “The Conscience of a Liberal: Reclaiming the Compassionate Agenda”, p.8, Random House

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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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  Children, Thinking, People

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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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  Power, Organization, Political

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• We need a new kind of citizenship, so that we can see citizens as themselves earning the rank of patriot because of their involvement in their community affairs....We as a society need to be encouraging people to focus not just on individual wants but on serving the larger community.

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  People, Community, Focus

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• I represent the Democratic wing of the Democratic party.

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  Party, Wings, Politics

  Paul Wellstone (2001). “The Conscience of a Liberal: Reclaiming the Compassionate Agenda”, p.226, Random House

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• Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities.

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  Education, Democracies Have, Goal

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• I don't think politics has anything to do with left, right, or center. It has to do with trying to do right by people.

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  Thinking, People, Trying

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• I saw as a teacher how, if you take that spark of learning that those children have, and you ignite it, you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment.

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  Teacher, Children, Teaching

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• The best kind of politics is when you help people become their own best selves.

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  Self, People, Helping

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• If a teacher does not involve himself, his values, his commitments, in the course of discussion, why should the students?

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  Teacher, Teaching, Commitment

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• There are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing and electoral politics.

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  Change, America, Political

  Paul Wellstone (2001). “The Conscience of a Liberal: Reclaiming the Compassionate Agenda”, p.216, Random House

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