Paul Wellstone Quotes

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

  Paul Wellstone

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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?

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• 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.

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

  Paul Wellstone

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  Tags in Fullest, Capabilities And Potential

• I represent the Democratic wing of the Democratic party.

  Paul Wellstone

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

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• I’m short, I’m Jewish and I’m a liberal.

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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.

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

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• Politics is not about money.

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• Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning.

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

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

  Paul Wellstone

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• 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

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

  Paul Wellstone

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• We can remake the world daily.

  Paul Wellstone

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• 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

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• Without trying, I’m different.

  Paul Wellstone

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• Politics is not about power.

  Paul Wellstone

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• Sometimes, the only realists are the dreamers.

  Paul Wellstone

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

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