Quotes by Paul Wellstone

About Paul Wellstone:

Paul David Wellstone was an American academic and politician who represented Minnesota in the United States Senate from 1991 until he was killed in a plane crash in Eveleth, Minnesota in 2002. A member of the Democratic Farmer-Labor Party, Wellstone was a leading spokesman for the progressive wing of the national Democratic Party.
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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?

Paul Wellstone

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.

Paul Wellstone

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.

Paul Wellstone

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.

Paul Wellstone

Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia.

Paul Wellstone

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

Paul Wellstone

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

Paul Wellstone

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.

Paul Wellstone

We can remake the world daily.

Paul Wellstone

Why don't we call on the credit card companies to be accountable? They need to be held accountable for their predatory lending practices.

Paul Wellstone

I represent the Democratic wing of the Democratic party.

Paul Wellstone

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

Paul Wellstone

We all do better when we all do better.

Paul Wellstone

Never separate the life you lead from the words you speak.

Paul Wellstone

Politics is not about big money or power games; it's about the improvement of people's lives

Paul Wellstone

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.

Paul Wellstone

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.

Paul Wellstone

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

Paul Wellstone

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

Paul Wellstone

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

Paul Wellstone

Author Bio

  • NamePaul Wellstone
  • DescriptionAmerican politician
  • BornJuly 21, 1944
  • DiedOctober 25, 2002
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPolitician; Political Scientist