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
committed means politics
We can and must move U.S. politics forward by means of committed participation.
party wings politics
I represent the Democratic wing of the Democratic party.
moving mean politics
We can and must move U.S. politics forward by means of committed participation.
giving excess politics
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.
people politics way
The only way to change is to vote. People are responsible.
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.
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.
politics imagine predictions
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.
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.