Paul Wellstone
...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?Collection: Country
We must regain our vision and hope and move our country forward on an agenda of peace and justice.Collection: Country
There is an elementary aspiration which undergirds the humane impulse in our history and our culture and binds us together as political activists. This is a simple, irreducible, indisputable aspiration. It is the 'dream of justice' for a beloved community, in which the level of terror in people's lives is sharply reduced or maybe eliminated. 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.Collection: Dream
The future belongs to those who are passionate and work hard.Collection: Hard Work
I do believe that there's going to be a pretty strong consensus for a very strong .. censure resolution.Collection: Strong
The problem with party politics is that people get involved every two or four years and that is it. In the meantime, the legislature and Minnesota politics are on a separate track.Collection: Party
Successful organizing is not built on self-interest but rather on dignity and a sense of purpose.Collection: Successful
We're not going to have real security until we invest in our children.Collection: Children
The Democratic Party has lost much of it credibility with working class and low-income people. It retards progress toward presenting a genuine alternative.Collection: Party
There are forces within the Democratic Party who want us to sound like kinder, gentler Republicans.Collection: Party
The best kind of politics is when you help people become their own best selves.Collection: Self
Let there be no distance between the words you say and the life you live.Collection: Distance
I think the future also will not belong to those who are cynical or those who stand on the sidelinesCollection: Thinking
We must renew democracy itself. We have to fight cynicism and inertia and restore faith in the advancement of our country.Collection: Country