American - Politician | July 21, 1944 - October 25, 2002
As free citizens in a political democracy, we have a responsibility to be interested and involved in the affairs of the human community, be it at the local or the global level.
Paul Wellstone
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I think the future also will not belong to those who are cynical or those who stand on the sidelines.
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If a teacher does not involve himself, his values, his commitments, in the course of discussion, why should the students?
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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.
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Without trying, I'm different.
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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.
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We can and must move U.S. politics forward by means of committed participation.
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Sometimes, the only realists are the dreamers.
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The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy.
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Above and beyond the question of how to grow the economy there is a legitimate concern about how to grow the quality of our lives.
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Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities.
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I emphasize self-esteem, self-confidence, and dignity, not as an ideal, but as a real test of community organization. Without leadership development, community organizations do not have staying power.
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