American - Politician | July 21, 1944 - October 25, 2002
I represent the Democratic wing of the Democratic party.
Paul Wellstone
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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.
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I'm short, I'm Jewish and I'm a liberal.
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If we don't fight hard enough for the things we stand for, at some point we have to recognize that we don't really stand for them.
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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.
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Politics is not about money.
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Politics is not about power.
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Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning.
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The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power which is the principal threat to our democracy.
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The first task in teaching is to bring to consciousness what the students already believe by virtue of their personal experiences about themselves and society.
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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?
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There is a major ingredient missing from our perception of how changes are brought about; that ingredient is power.
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