Paul Wellstone
I don't think politics has anything to do with left, right, or center. It has to do with trying to do right by people.Collection: Politics
Politics isn't about big money or power games; it's about the improvement of people's lives.Collection: Politics
I think the future also will not belong to those who are cynical or those who stand on the sidelines.Collection: Future
There are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing and electoral politics.Collection: Politics
Politics is about the improvement of people's lives. It's about advancing the cause of peace and justice in our country and the world. Politics is about doing well for the people.Collection: Politics
Politics is not about power.Collection: Politics
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.Collection: Leadership
The future will belong to those who have passion and are willing to work hard to make our country better.Collection: Future
Our politics are our deepest form of expression: they mirror our past experiences and reflect our dreams and aspirations for the future.Collection: Dreams
If a teacher does not involve himself, his values, his commitments, in the course of discussion, why should the students?Collection: Teacher
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.Collection: Politics
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.Collection: Teacher
Sometimes, the only realists are the dreamers.Collection: Dreams
Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities.Collection: Education
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.Collection: Politics
Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning.Collection: Politics
What makes community organizing especially attractive is the faith it places in the ability of the poor to make decisions for themselves.Collection: Faith
We all do better when we all do better.
I represent the Democratic wing of the Democratic party.
Never separate the life you live from the words you speak.
The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy.
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.
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.
We can remake the world daily.
Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia.
There is a major ingredient missing from our perception of how changes are brought about; that ingredient is power.
The only way to change is to vote. People are responsible.
Successful organizing is based on the recognition that people get organized because they, too, have a vision.
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.
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.
Above and beyond the question of how to grow the economy there is a legitimate concern about how to grow the quality of our lives.
The people of this country, not special interest big money, should be the source of all political power.
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?
What the poor, the weak, and the inarticulate desperately require is power, organization, and a sense of identity and purpose, not rarefied advice of political scientists.
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.
Politics is not about money.
I'm short, I'm Jewish and I'm a liberal.
We can and must move U.S. politics forward by means of committed participation.
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.
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.
Without trying, I'm different.
Why don't we call on the credit card companies to be accountable? They need to be held accountable for their predatory lending practices.
We all do better, when we all do better.Collection: Attitude
Politics is not about power. Politics is not about money. Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning. Politics is about the improvement of people's lives.Collection: Winning
I dare to imagine a country where every child I hold in my hands, are all God's children, regardless of the color of their skin, regardless of whether they're boy or girl, regardless of religion, regardless of rich or poor, that every child I hold in my hands, will have the same chance to reach her full potential or his full potential. That is the goodness of our country. That is the essence of the American dream.Collection: Girl
The future will not belong to those who sit on the sidelines. The future will not belong to the cynics. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.Collection: Dream
Politics is not left, right or center ... It's about improving people's lives.Collection: People
Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia. What we seek is more simply to improve the quality of human life while at the same time respecting the natural environment which sustains it: 'Not a heaven on earth but a better earth on earth.' This is not at all a timid agenda, far from it. The work ahead of us is enormous!Collection: Perfect
The future will belong to those who have passion and are willing to work hard to make our country betterCollection: Country
Sometimes, the only realists are the dreamersCollection: Dream