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
children thinking people
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?
children real our-children
We're not going to have real security until we invest in our children.
teacher children teaching
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.
country children citizens
...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?
committed means politics
We can and must move U.S. politics forward by means of committed participation.
strong believe resolution
I do believe that there's going to be a pretty strong consensus for a very strong .. censure resolution.
organization political advice
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.
talking people auditors
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.
successful self purpose
Successful organizing is not built on self-interest but rather on dignity and a sense of purpose.
money games people
Politics isn't about big money or power games; it's about the improvement of people's lives.
party years two
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.
I'm short, I'm Jewish and I'm a liberal
trying different
Without trying, I'm different.
country moving justice
We must regain our vision and hope and move our country forward on an agenda of peace and justice.