Quotes By Paul Wellstone

Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning.

We can remake the world daily.

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.

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.

The only way to change is to vote. People are responsible.

Why don't we call on the credit card companies to be accountable? They need to be held accountable for their predatory lending practices.

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.

Politics is not about power.