Paul Wellstone Quotes
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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.
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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.
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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.
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We all do better when we all do better.
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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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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.
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I think the future also will not belong to those who are cynical or those who stand on the sidelines.
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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.
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I'm short, I'm Jewish and I'm a liberal.
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Successful organizing is based on the recognition that people get organized because they, too, have a vision.
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Politics is not about power.
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Our politics are our deepest form of expression: they mirror our past experiences and reflect our dreams and aspirations for the future.
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What makes community organizing especially attractive is the faith it places in the ability of the poor to make decisions for themselves.
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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.
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Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia.
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Sometimes, the only realists are the dreamers.
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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.
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I represent the Democratic wing of the Democratic party.