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
freedom fighting liberty
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.
integrity inspiration character
Never separate the life you live from the words you speak.
ideas democracies-have hypocrisy
The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy.
successful people vision
Successful organizing is based on the recognition that people get organized because they, too, have a vision.
successful self purpose
Successful organizing is not built on self-interest but rather on dignity and a sense of purpose.
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.
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.
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.
committed means politics
We can and must move U.S. politics forward by means of committed participation.