“Innovation is not about 'why?' It's about 'why not?'”— Gavin Johannsen, Darius Tanz, Santiago Cabrera, imdb.com
“We must enter conversations in pursuit of progress, not to prove a point.”— Charli Cooksey, teenvogue.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
“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.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
“He was a young, good-looking guy, big guy, a huge personality, what somebody would call a ‘room bender.’ He would come into a room and everybody knew he was there. Lots of energy, part of the Kennedy mystique, and was an all-out progressive, itchy and anxious to change and reform and get it done rig…”— Walter Mondale, emkinstitute.org
“You seem to be so progressive, but when it comes to the sexes, it's like we're in the 1950s. Woman in the shadows while we're still supporting the men.”— Jason Katims, Sarah Lane, Michelle Monaghan, imdb.com
“A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy….”— Theodore Roosevelt, theodorerooseveltcenter.org