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Paul Wellstone [1944-2002] American

Rank: 101
Politician, Former United States Senator

Paul David Wellstone was an American academic and politician who represented Minnesota in the United States Senate from 1991 until he was killed in a plane crash in Eveleth, Minnesota in 2002.

Politics, Dreams, Teacher, Change, Faith, Leadership, Learning, Power

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There are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing and electoral politics.	Change, Politics	101
Sometimes, the only realists are the dreamers.	Dreams	102
As free citizens in a political democracy, we have a responsibility to be interested and involved in the affairs of the human community, be it at the local or the global level.		103
I saw as a teacher how, if you take that spark of learning that those children have, and you ignite it, you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment.	Learning, Teacher	104
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.		105
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.	Politics	106
The future will belong to those who have passion and are willing to work hard to make our country better.		107
The only way to change is to vote. People are responsible.		108
What makes community organizing especially attractive is the faith it places in the ability of the poor to make decisions for themselves.	Faith	109
When too many Americans don't vote or participate, some see apathy and despair. I see disappointment and even outrage. And I believe that out of this frustration can come hope and action.		110
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.	Politics	111
Never separate the life you live from the words you speak.		112
Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia.		113
Politics is not about power.	Politics, Power	114
Successful organizing is based on the recognition that people get organized because they, too, have a vision.		115
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.		116
We all do better when we all do better.		117
What the poor, the weak, and the inarticulate desperately require is power, organization, and a sense of identity and purpose, not rarefied advice of political scientists.		118
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.	Leadership	119
I think the future also will not belong to those who are cynical or those who stand on the sidelines.		120
Politics is about the improvement of people's lives. It's about advancing the cause of peace and justice in our country and the world. Politics is about doing well for the people.		121
The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy.		122
Politics isn't about big money or power games; it's about the improvement of people's lives.		123
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.		124
Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities.		125
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.		126
If a teacher does not involve himself, his values, his commitments, in the course of discussion, why should the students?	Teacher	201
Our politics are our deepest form of expression: they mirror our past experiences and reflect our dreams and aspirations for the future.	Dreams	202
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.		203
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.		204
The people of this country, not special interest big money, should be the source of all political power.		205
There is a major ingredient missing from our perception of how changes are brought about; that ingredient is power.		206
We can and must move U.S. politics forward by means of committed participation.		207
We can remake the world daily.		208
Without trying, I'm different.		209
Why don't we call on the credit card companies to be accountable? They need to be held accountable for their predatory lending practices.		210
I don't think politics has anything to do with left, right, or center. It has to do with trying to do right by people.		211
I represent the Democratic wing of the Democratic party.		212
I'm short, I'm Jewish and I'm a liberal.		213
Politics is not about money.		214
Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning.		215
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?		216

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