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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.”
-- Paul Wellstone

#Freedom #Fighting #Liberty
“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

#Politics #Imagine #Predictions
“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

#People #Arrogant #Politics
“The people of this country, not special interest big money, should be the source of all political power.”
-- Paul Wellstone

#Country #Money #People
“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

#Quality #Economy #Above And Beyond
“Never separate the life you live from the words you speak.”
-- Paul Wellstone

#Integrity #Inspiration #Character
“We all do better, when we all do better.”
-- 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

#Thinking #People #Trying
“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.”
-- Paul Wellstone

#Winning #People #Sake
“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.”
-- Paul Wellstone

#Dream #Believe #Sidelines
“Successful organizing is based on the recognition that people get organized because they, too, have a vision.”
-- Paul Wellstone

#Successful #People #Vision
“The future will belong to those who have passion and are willing to work hard to make our country better”
-- Paul Wellstone

#Country #Hard Work #Passion
“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

#Disappointment #Believe #Frustration
“There are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing and electoral politics.”
-- Paul Wellstone

#Change #America #Political
“The only way to change is to vote. People are responsible.”
-- Paul Wellstone

#People #Politics #Way
“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

#Responsibility #Community #Political
“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

#Giving #Excess #Politics
“Sometimes, the only realists are the dreamers”
-- Paul Wellstone

#Dream #Dreamer #Sometimes
“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

#Teacher #Children #Teaching
“If a teacher does not involve himself, his values, his commitments, in the course of discussion, why should the students?”
-- Paul Wellstone

#Teacher #Teaching #Commitment
“Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities.”
-- Paul Wellstone

#Education #Goal #Democracy
“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

#Power #Tyrants #Political
“The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy.”
-- Paul Wellstone

#Ideas #Hypocrisy #Democracy
“I'm short, I'm Jewish and I'm a liberal”
-- Paul Wellstone
“Politics is not left, right or center ... It's about improving people's lives.”
-- Paul Wellstone

#People
“Politics is not about power.”
-- Paul Wellstone

#Power
“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.”
-- Paul Wellstone

#Girl #Dream #Country
“Successful organizing is not built on self-interest but rather on dignity and a sense of purpose.”
-- Paul Wellstone

#Successful #Self #Purpose
“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

#Talking #People #Auditors
“I do believe that there's going to be a pretty strong consensus for a very strong .. censure resolution.”
-- Paul Wellstone

#Strong #Believe #Resolution

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