"The idea of democracy has been stripped of……" — Paul Wellstone
"The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy."
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56 Quotes by Paul Wellstone
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If we don't fight hard enough for the things we stand for, at some point we have to recognize that…
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The kind of national goal we ought to be thinking about is way beyond national product - it is how…
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Sometimes, the only realists are the dreamers
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Politics is not about power.
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Without trying, I'm different.
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I'm short, I'm Jewish and I'm a liberal
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The future will not belong to those who sit on the sidelines. The future will not belong to the cynics.…
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I dare to imagine a country where every child I hold in my hands, are all God's children, regardless of…
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Successful organizing is not built on self-interest but rather on dignity and a sense of purpose.
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I was talking about no nukes, the farm crisis. People said that wasn't stuff that a state auditor was supposed…
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Politics is not about power. Politics is not about money. Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning.…
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What the poor, the weak, and the inarticulate desperately require is power, organization, and a sense of identity and purpose,…
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