Paul Wellstone Quotes

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Accountable, Predator, Company

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Sensitive, Intellectually, Lives, Circumstance

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

  Paul Wellstone

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ingredient, Missing, Change

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

  Paul Wellstone

  Topics in Dream

  Tags in Expression, Deepest, Aspiration

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

  Paul Wellstone

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Political Activism, Utopias, Aim

• 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

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Observations, Dare

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ignite Talent, Lifetime, Accomplishment, Teacher, Spark, Creativity

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Beyond, Legitimate, Ground, Grow, Concern

• 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

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Citizenship, Locally, Responsibility, Community

• 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

  Topics in Ideals, Leadership, Management

  Tags in Self-Confidence, Emphasize, Self-Esteem, Test, Community

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Center, Left

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

  Paul Wellstone

  Topics in Decisions

  Tags in Attractive, Organizing, Places

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Consciousness, Students, Virtue, Teaching

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in State, Supposed, Auditors, Nuke, Farm, Talking

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

  Paul Wellstone

  Topics in Future

  Tags in Work Hard, Willing

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

  Paul Wellstone

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Committed, Participation, Forward

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Stand, Freedom And Liberty, Fight, Recognize

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

  Paul Wellstone

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Hypocrisy, Denotes, Stripped, Moral

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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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Apathy, Outrage, Action, Disappointment, Hope

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

  Paul Wellstone

  Topics in Commitment

  Tags in Values, Teachers

Paul Wellstone (41)

Birth:	21st June, 1944
Death:	25th October, 2002
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Academic, Politician

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