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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Sometimes, the only realists are the dreamers.

Paul Wellstone

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

Paul Wellstone

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

Paul Wellstone

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

Paul Wellstone

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

Paul Wellstone

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.

Paul Wellstone

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

Paul Wellstone

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.

Paul Wellstone

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.

Paul Wellstone

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

Paul Wellstone

Politics isn't about big money or power games; it's about the improvement of people's lives.

Paul Wellstone

Politics is not about money.

Paul Wellstone

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.

Paul Wellstone

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

Paul Wellstone

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.

Paul Wellstone

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.

Paul Wellstone

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

Paul Wellstone

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.

Paul Wellstone

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.

Paul Wellstone

Politics is not about power.

Paul Wellstone

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.

Paul Wellstone

Author Bio

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