Quotes By Paul Wellstone

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

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

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

The people of this country, not special interest big money, should be the source of all political power.

Politics is not about money.

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

Why don't we call on the credit card companies to be accountable? They need to be held accountable for their predatory lending practices.

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.

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.

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.

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.