Paul Wellstone Quotes
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We can remake the world daily.
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Politics isn't about big money or power games; it's about the improvement of people's lives.
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Politics is not about money.
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The only way to change is to vote. People are responsible.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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We can and must move U.S. politics forward by means of committed participation.
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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.
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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.
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The people of this country, not special interest big money, should be the source of all political power.
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The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy.
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Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning.
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Never separate the life you live from the words you speak.
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The future will belong to those who have passion and are willing to work hard to make our country better.
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Why don't we call on the credit card companies to be accountable? They need to be held accountable for their predatory lending practices.
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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.
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Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities.
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If a teacher does not involve himself, his values, his commitments, in the course of discussion, why should the students?
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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.
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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.
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There is a major ingredient missing from our perception of how changes are brought about; that ingredient is power.
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There are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing and electoral politics.
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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.