Quotes from Paul Wellstone

Why don't we call on the credit card companies to be accountable? They need to be held accountable for their predatory lending practices.

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.

Never separate the life you live from the words you speak.

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?

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.

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.

I represent the Democratic wing of the Democratic party.

Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning.

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.

Let there be no distance between the words you say and the life you live.

We can remake the world daily.

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.

I'm short, I'm Jewish and I'm a liberal.

Sometimes, the only realists are the dreamers.

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.

The future will belong to those who have passion and are willing to work hard to make our country better

Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia.

If a teacher does not involve himself, his values, his commitments, in the course of discussion, why should the students?

The future belongs to those who are passionate and work hard.

The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy.

What makes community organizing especially attractive is the faith it places in the ability of the poor to make decisions for themselves.

We all do better, when we all do better.

Successful organizing is based on the recognition that people get organized because they, too, have a vision.

Successful organizing is not built on self-interest but rather on dignity and a sense of purpose.