Paul Wellstone Quotes About Politics

Quotes about: Politics

• 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 what we work for, by what we hope for and what we dare to imagine.

  Paul Wellstone

  Politics, Imagine, Predictions

• 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 an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail.

  Paul Wellstone

  People, Doe, Arrogant

  Paul Wellstone (2001). “The Conscience of a Liberal: Reclaiming the Compassionate Agenda”, p.209, Random House

• 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.

  Paul Wellstone

  Thinking, People, Trying

• 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 quality of human life while at the same time respecting the natural environment which sustains it: 'Not a heaven on earth but a better earth on earth.' This is not at all a timid agenda, far from it. The work ahead of us is enormous!

  Paul Wellstone

  Perfect, Political, Heaven

• The Democratic Party has lost much of it credibility with working class and low-income people. It retards progress toward presenting a genuine alternative.

  Paul Wellstone

  Party, Class, People

• 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.

  Paul Wellstone

  People, Community, Focus

• The only way to change is to vote. People are responsible.

  Paul Wellstone

  Change, People, Political

• 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 this frustration can come hope and action.

  Paul Wellstone

  Disappointment, Believe, Frustration

• 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 a simple, irreducible, indisputable aspiration. It is the 'dream of justice' for a beloved community, in which the level of terror in people's lives is sharply reduced or maybe eliminated. 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 full potential. This is why we take precious time out of our lives and give it to politics.

  Paul Wellstone

  Dream, Simple, Beloved Community

• There are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing and electoral politics.

  Paul Wellstone

  Change, America, Political

  Paul Wellstone (2001). “The Conscience of a Liberal: Reclaiming the Compassionate Agenda”, p.216, Random House

• 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 full potential. This is why we take precious time out of our lives and give it to politics.

  Paul Wellstone

  Giving, Full Potential, Excess

• 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 at the local or the global level.

  Paul Wellstone

  Responsibility, Community, Political

• We must regain our vision and hope and move our country forward on an agenda of peace and justice.

  Paul Wellstone

  Country, Moving, Justice

• 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 Minnesota politics are on a separate track.

  Paul Wellstone

  Party, Years, Two

• I represent the Democratic wing of the Democratic party.

  Paul Wellstone

  Party, Wings, Politics

  Paul Wellstone (2001). “The Conscience of a Liberal: Reclaiming the Compassionate Agenda”, p.226, Random House

• Our politics are our deepest form of expression: they mirror our past experiences and reflect our dreams and aspirations for the future.

  Paul Wellstone

  Dream, Past, Mirrors

• Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning.

  Paul Wellstone

  Winning, Politics, Sake

  Paul Wellstone (2012). “Becoming Wellstone: Healing from Tragedy and Carrying on My Father's Legacy”, p.47, Hazelden Publishing

• We can and must move U.S. politics forward by means of committed participation.

  Paul Wellstone

  Moving, Mean, Politics

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