Quotes by Paul Wellstone - Page 2

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 / Former United States Senator
Peace
Advancing
Country
Improvement
People
World Politics
Cause
For The People
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The problem with party politics is that people get involved every two or four years and that is it. In the meantime, the legislature and Minnesota politics are on a separate track.
Paul Wellstone / Former United States Senator
Party
Two
Years
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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 / Former United States Senator
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Ought
People
Thinking
Possibly
Product
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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.
Paul Wellstone / Former United States Senator
Apathy
Believe
Despair
Disappointment
Frustration
Outrage
Vote
Hope Believe I Believe
Participate
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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.
Paul Wellstone / Former United States Senator
Learning
Teacher
Accomplishment
Children
Creativity
Ignite
Lifetime
Teaching
Child
Background
Saw
Spark
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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.
Paul Wellstone / Former United States Senator
Leadership
Community
Development
Dignity
Organization
Real
Self Confidence
Self Esteem
Staying
Staying Power
Emphasize
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Test
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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.
Paul Wellstone / Former United States Senator
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Circumstances
Doe
People
Sensitive
Concerns
Fail
Include
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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.
Paul Wellstone / Former United States Senator
Politics
Dare
Imagine
Predictions
Observations
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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 / Former United States Senator
Belief
Excess
Extremes
Full Potential
Giving
Inequality
Our Lives
Precious Time
Why
Free
Full
Develop
Each
Her
Precious
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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.
Paul Wellstone / Former United States Senator
Community
Focus
People
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...how can we live in the richest, most privileged country in the world, at the peak of its economic performance, and still hear the Republicans, and too many Democrats, that we cannot afford to provide a good education for every child, that we cannot afford to provide health security for all our citizens?
Paul Wellstone / Former United States Senator
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Citizens
Country
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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!
Paul Wellstone / Former United States Senator
Heaven
Perfect
Political
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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.
Paul Wellstone / Former United States Senator
Dream
Girl
Country
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There is an elementary aspiration which undergirds the humane impulse in our history and our culture and binds us together as political activists. This is a simple, irreducible, indisputable aspiration. It is the 'dream of justice' for a beloved community, in which the level of terror in people's lives is sharply reduced or maybe eliminated. 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 / Former United States Senator
Dream
Beloved Community
Simple
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