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Paul Wellstone Quotes

Total quotes: 10
“This time, vote for what you believe in.”
— Paul Wellstone, The Conscience of a Liberal: Reclaiming the Compassionate Agenda
Tagged: Progressive, Grassroots, elections, Voting Matters
“The politics of racist and anti-Semitic hatred had moved into rural America, exploiting the farmers' desperation. Since I was the only Jew actively speaking and organizing with farmers, I mentioned my own Jewish background when appealing to the farmers to 'not let the worst of times bring out the worst in you.'”
— Paul Wellstone, The Conscience of a Liberal: Reclaiming the Compassionate Agenda
Tagged: Racism In America, Political Weapon, Political Campaigns, Anti-Semitism, Division
“We do not create the winds and the tides, the conditions that give rise to great social movements. So it is important to achieve power in other ways. And in a representative democracy, it matters whom we elect to office and hold accountable for public policy.”
— Paul Wellstone, The Conscience of a Liberal: Reclaiming the Compassionate Agenda
Tagged: Progressive, Politics in America, Political Campaigns
“People yearn for a 'politics of the center' —not 'the center' so widely discussed by politicians and pundits in Washington but rather a politics that speaks to the center of people's lives: affordable child care, good education for children, health security, living-wage jobs that will support families, respect for the environment and human rights, and clean elections and clean campaigns.”
— Paul Wellstone, The Conscience of a Liberal: Reclaiming the Compassionate Agenda
Tagged: Progressive, Politics in America, Political Campaigns, Middle Class, Working Class
“Politics is what we create by what we do, what we hope for, and what we dare to imagine.”
— Paul Wellstone, The Conscience of a Liberal: Reclaiming the Compassionate Agenda
Tagged: Progressive, Politics in America, Political Campaigns
“I think the future also will not belong to those who are cynical or those who stand on the sidelines. The future will belong to those who have passion and are willing to work hard to make our country better.”
— Paul Wellstone, The Conscience of a Liberal: Reclaiming the Compassionate Agenda
Tagged: Progressive, Politics in America, Grassroots, America's Future
“We didn't win by matching pollster against pollster, ad against ad, image maker against image maker. We won by including citizens in an inspiring grassroots campaign.”
— Paul Wellstone, The Conscience of a Liberal: Reclaiming the Compassionate Agenda
Tagged: Progressive, Politics in America, Political Campaigns
“How can we live in the richest, most privileged country in the world, at the peak of its economic performance, and still hear from 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?”
— Paul Wellstone, The Conscience of a Liberal: Reclaiming the Compassionate Agenda
Tagged: Politics, Money
“We all do better when we all do better.”
— Paul Wellstone, 1999 Sheet Metal Workers Speech
Tagged: Unions, Compassion, mindfulness
“I think we ought to remember what Emerson wrote - The true test of civilization is not the census or the size of the city or the crops, but the kind of man (and I'd add women) the country turns out. 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?”
— Paul Wellstone, Remembering the Great Paul Wellstone
Tagged: Politics, How to be good
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