Paul Wellstone
Paul Wellstone
Paul David Wellstonewas 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth21 July 1944
CountryUnited States of America
power
Politics is not about power.
successful self purpose
Successful organizing is not built on self-interest but rather on dignity and a sense of purpose.
children thinking people
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?
power missing perception
There is a major ingredient missing from our perception of how changes are brought about; that ingredient is power.
practice accountability cards
Why don't we call on the credit card companies to be accountable? They need to be held accountable for their predatory lending practices.
moving mean politics
We can and must move U.S. politics forward by means of committed participation.
money games people
Politics isn't about big money or power games; it's about the improvement of people's lives.
self people helping
The best kind of politics is when you help people become their own best selves.
hard-work passionate hard
The future belongs to those who are passionate and work hard.
talking people auditors
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.
dream simple beloved-community
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.
dream past expression
Our politics are our deepest form of expression: they mirror our past experiences and reflect our dreams and aspirations for the future.
strong believe resolution
I do believe that there's going to be a pretty strong consensus for a very strong .. censure resolution.
committed means politics
We can and must move U.S. politics forward by means of committed participation.