"We need a new kind of citizenship, so……" — Paul Wellstone
"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 their community affairs....We as a society need to be encouraging people to focus not just on individual wants but on serving the larger community."
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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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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all…
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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one…
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I started my music career at 18 and for a long while I let other people handle my affairs.
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Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
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Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
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A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
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Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they…
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