Paul Wellstone
Paul Wellstone
Paul David Wellstonewas an American academic and politician who represented Minnesota in the United States Senate from 1991 until he was killed in a plane crash in Eveleth, Minnesota in 2002. A member of the Democratic Farmer-Labor Party, Wellstone was a leading spokesman for the progressive wing of the national Democratic Party...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth21 July 1944
CountryUnited States of America
education democracies-have goal
Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities.
people focus community
We need a new kind of citizenship, so that we can see citizens as themselves earning the rank of patriot because of their involvement in their community affairs....We as a society need to be encouraging people to focus not just on individual wants but on serving the larger community.
change america political
There are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing and electoral politics.
dream dreamer sometimes
Sometimes, the only realists are the dreamers
people politics way
The only way to change is to vote. People are responsible.
country hard-work passion
The future will belong to those who have passion and are willing to work hard to make our country better
thinking people trying
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.
dream believe sidelines
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.
quality economy above-and-beyond
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.
winning people power-politics
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.
integrity inspiration character
Never separate the life you live from the words you speak.
country money people
The people of this country, not special interest big money, should be the source of all political power.
people arrogant politics
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.
perfect political heaven
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!