Paul Wellstone Quotes

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

Politics is not about money.

Sometimes, the only realists are the dreamers.

Politics is not about power.

We can remake the world daily.

Without trying, I'm different.

I'm from the Democratic party-wing of the Democratic Party.

Right now the whole does not equal the sum of the parts.

I think we can do better. That is what Robert Kennedy always said. I think we can do better too. Won't you join me in the effort?

I think this is really a good example of the commercial calculus and ties taking precedence over everything else. It's sort of like the almighty dollar is triumphing over a lot of other values that we have as a nation.

I'm here to represent the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party.

“The future will not belong to those who sit on the sidelines. The future will not belong to the cynics. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”.

I believe that we will deeply regret this stampede to pass this legislation and the way in which we have taken all the human rights, religious freedom, right to organize, all of those concerns and we just put them in parenthesis, put them in brackets, as if they don't exist.

Commercial ties and trying to sort of make all the profit that we can make has trumped all concern for human rights. And that's not what our country is about.

Victories should be won by people where they live, but if the victories never affect national or international centers of decision-making power, then we are still not seriously contesting for power.

behalf of good jobs, a living wage, good healthcare and good education.

I think Bill Bradley has immense personal and intellectual integrity. I think he cares deeply about some issues that are very important to our country, how to get big money out of politics, how to revitalize democracy.

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[On ABC's] This Week, ... too many people in the country are either not old enough for Medicare, ... or they're not poor enough for Medicaid and they're not fortunate enough to have a good health insurance plan.

This is one big, huge gigantic leap sideways, or backward.

virtual wish list for multinational corporations.

If you want to do something for consumers, that is what you have to do as president.

This is a loophole that must be plugged.

If we go to witnesses, it will be a spectacle.

We had discussion. We had votes. We dealt with issues that were important to people's lives. We voted yes. We voted no. We had some vitality.