Paul Wellstone Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• 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.

  Paul Wellstone

  Girl, Dream, Country

• ...how can we live in the richest, most privileged country in the world, at the peak of its economic performance, and still hear the Republicans, and too many Democrats, that we cannot afford to provide a good education for every child, that we cannot afford to provide health security for all our citizens?

  Paul Wellstone

  Country, Children, Citizens

  Paul Wellstone (2001). “The Conscience of a Liberal: Reclaiming the Compassionate Agenda”, p.7, Random House

• 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.

  Paul Wellstone

  Teacher, Children, Teaching

• 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?

  Paul Wellstone

  Children, Thinking, People

• We're not going to have real security until we invest in our children.

  Paul Wellstone

  Children, Real, Our Children

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