“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.com
“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.com
“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.com
“Politics is what we create by what we do, what we hope for, and what we dare to imagine.”— Paul Wellstone, amazon.com
“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.com
“Today we have a system where only those individuals with the means of capital and who can both pay the exorbitant application fee and fund a political campaign can vie for the presidency. It would not surprise any close observer to discover that in this inane system, the same unsavory characters who…”— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com
“I never went on TV one time during the campaign. Not once. You know why? Because politics is war. General Sherman would never have gone on TV to tell everyone his plans. I'd never tip my hand to the other side. And right now we’ve got work to do.”— Steve Bannon, wsj.com