Paul Wellstone Quotes - Page 2

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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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  Quality, Economy, Above And Beyond

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

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  Change, People, Political

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• The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy.

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  Democracies Have, Ideas, Hypocrisy

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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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  Disappointment, Believe, Frustration

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• There are forces within the Democratic Party who want us to sound like kinder, gentler Republicans.

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  Party, Sound, Want

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

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  Moving, Mean, Politics

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• The Democratic Party has lost much of it credibility with working class and low-income people. It retards progress toward presenting a genuine alternative.

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  Party, Class, People

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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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  Power, Tyrants, Political

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• Successful organizing is based on the recognition that people get organized because they, too, have a vision.

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  Successful, People, Vision

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• Our politics are our deepest form of expression: they mirror our past experiences and reflect our dreams and aspirations for the future.

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  Dream, Past, Mirrors

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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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• 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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• 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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  Responsibility, Community, Political

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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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• Without trying, I'm different.

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  Trying, Different

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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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  Faith, Community, Decision

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• Let there be no distance between the words you say and the life you live.

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  Distance, Words You Say

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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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  Thinking, Cynical, Sidelines

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

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• We can remake the world daily.

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  Attitude, World, Remakes

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• Politics is not about power.

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  Power

  "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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• 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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• We must renew democracy itself. We have to fight cynicism and inertia and restore faith in the advancement of our country.

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  Country, Fighting, Democracy

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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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• 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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  Talking, Agriculture, People

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• Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning.

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  Winning, Politics, Sake

  Paul Wellstone (2012). “Becoming Wellstone: Healing from Tragedy and Carrying on My Father's Legacy”, p.47, Hazelden Publishing

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