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Politics Quotes by Paul Wellstone
- Politics is not about power.
- 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…
- Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning.
- 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.
- Politics isn't about big money or power games; it's about the improvement of people's lives.
- 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…
- 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…
- I represent the Democratic wing of the Democratic party.
- Our politics are our deepest form of expression: they mirror our past experiences and reflect our dreams and aspirations for the future.
- 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…
- 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…
- We can and must move U.S. politics forward by means of committed participation.
- 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…
- There are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing and electoral politics.
- The problem with party politics is that people get involved every two or four years and that is it. In the meantime, the legislature and…
- We must regain our vision and hope and move our country forward on an agenda of peace and justice.
- The Democratic Party has lost much of it credibility with working class and low-income people. It retards progress toward presenting a genuine alternative.
- Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia. What we seek is more simply to improve the…
- The only way to change is to vote. People are responsible.
- 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…
- There is an elementary aspiration which undergirds the humane impulse in our history and our culture and binds us together as political activists. This is…
- We need a new kind of citizenship, so that we can see citizens as themselves earning the rank of patriot because of their involvement in…
- Politics is not about money.
More Politics Quotes
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- Under every stone lurks a politician. — Aristophanes
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle