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
Paul Wellstone quotes about
children real our-children
We're not going to have real security until we invest in our children.
power tyrants political
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.
disappointment believe frustration
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.
teacher children teaching
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.
responsibility community political
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.
giving excess politics
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.
teacher teaching commitment
If a teacher does not involve himself, his values, his commitments, in the course of discussion, why should the students?
country children citizens
...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?
successful people vision
Successful organizing is based on the recognition that people get organized because they, too, have a vision.
ideas democracies-have hypocrisy
The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy.
education democracies-have goal
Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities.
people focus community
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.
change america political
There are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing and electoral politics.
dream dreamer sometimes
Sometimes, the only realists are the dreamers