Quotes By Paul Wellstone

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

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.

I emphasize self-esteem, self-confidence, and dignity, not as an ideal, but as a real test of community organization. Without leadership development, community organizations do not have staying power.

There is a major ingredient missing from our perception of how changes are brought about; that ingredient is power.

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

Sometimes, the only realists are the dreamers.

If a teacher does not involve himself, his values, his commitments, in the course of discussion, why should the students?

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.

The first task in teaching is to bring to consciousness what the students already believe by virtue of their personal experiences about themselves and society.

Our politics are our deepest form of expression: they mirror our past experiences and reflect our dreams and aspirations for the future.

I'm short, I'm Jewish and I'm a liberal.