“This time, vote for what you believe in.”— Paul Wellstone, amazon.comTagged: Progressive, Grassroots, elections, Voting Matters
“The politics of racist and anti-Semitic hatred had moved into rural America, exploiting the farmers' desperation. Since I was the only Jew actively speaking and organizing with farmers, I mentioned my own Jewish background when appealing to the farmers to 'not let the worst of times bring out the wo…”— Paul Wellstone, amazon.comTagged: Racism In America, Political Weapon, Political Campaigns, Anti-Semitism, Division
“Politics is about the improvement of people's lives, lessening human suffering, advancing the cause of peace and justice in our country and in the world.”— Paul Wellstone, amazon.comTagged: United States Politics, free world, What Really Matters
“We do not create the winds and the tides, the conditions that give rise to great social movements. So it is important to achieve power in other ways. And in a representative democracy, it matters whom we elect to office and hold accountable for public policy.”— Paul Wellstone, amazon.comTagged: Progressive, Politics in America, Political Campaigns
“People yearn for a 'politics of the center' —not 'the center' so widely discussed by politicians and pundits in Washington but rather a politics that speaks to the center of people's lives: affordable child care, good education for children, health security, living-wage jobs that will support famili…”— Paul Wellstone, amazon.comTagged: Progressive, Politics in America, Political Campaigns, Middle Class, Working Class
“Politics is what we create by what we do, what we hope for, and what we dare to imagine.”— Paul Wellstone, amazon.comTagged: Progressive, Politics in America, Political Campaigns
“I think the future also will not belong to those who are cynical or those who stand on the sidelines. The future will belong to those who have passion and are willing to work hard to make our country better.”— Paul Wellstone, amazon.comTagged: Progressive, Politics in America, Grassroots, America's Future
“We didn't win by matching pollster against pollster, ad against ad, image maker against image maker. We won by including citizens in an inspiring grassroots campaign.”— Paul Wellstone, amazon.comTagged: Progressive, Politics in America, Political Campaigns
“We should never separate the lives we live from the words we speak.”— Paul Wellstone, amazon.comTagged: Politicians, Progressive, Compassion, politics and truth, Liberalism
“How can we live in the richest, most privileged country in the world, at the peak of its economic performance, and still hear from Republicans, and too many Democrats, that we cannot afford to provide a good education for every child, that we cannot afford to provide health security for all our citi…”— Paul Wellstone, amazon.comTagged: Politics, Money
“Politics is about the improvement of people's lives, lessening human suffering, advancing the cause of peace and justice in our country and in the world.’”— Senator Paul Wellstone, amazon.comTagged: Politics, Peace, How to be good