Explore Quotes by Paul Wellstone

Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities.

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.

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.

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

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

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

There are forces within the Democratic Party who want us to sound like kinder, gentler Republicans.

I think the future also will not belong to those who are cynical or those who stand on the sidelines

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

Politics is not about power. Politics is not about money. Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning. Politics is about the improvement of people's lives.

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.

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.

Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning.

I dare to imagine a country where every child I hold in my hands, are all God's children, regardless of the color of their skin, regardless of whether they're boy or girl, regardless of religion, regardless of rich or poor, that every child I hold in my hands, will have the same chance to reach her full potential or his full potential. That is the goodness of our country. That is the essence of the American dream.

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

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

Without trying, I'm different.

Politics is not about power.

Sometimes, the only realists are the dreamers

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?