Quotes By Paul Wellstone

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.

The future will belong to those who have passion and are willing to work hard to make our country better.

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.

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?

Politics isn't about big money or power games; it's about the improvement of people's lives.

We can remake the world daily.

Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning.

What makes community organizing especially attractive is the faith it places in the ability of the poor to make decisions for themselves.

Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia.

The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy.

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.