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
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.
money games people
Politics isn't about big money or power games; it's about the improvement of people's lives.
self people helping
The best kind of politics is when you help people become their own best selves.
party class people
The Democratic Party has lost much of it credibility with working class and low-income people. It retards progress toward presenting a genuine alternative.
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?
people left improving
Politics is not left, right or center ... It's about improving people's lives.
successful people vision
Successful organizing is based on the recognition that people get organized because they, too, have a vision.
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.
people politics way
The only way to change is to vote. People are responsible.
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.
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.
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.
committed means politics
We can and must move U.S. politics forward by means of committed participation.