Skip to content
quotesby

About this quote

What does it mean?
Politics reflect personal history and future hopes. It is a deep form of human expression.
In plain terms
Our political views show who we are and where we want to go.
What can you take from it?
Recognize politics as personal expression of dreams and past.

Where it applies

  • voting
  • campaigning
  • civic discourse

Putting it to work

  • align policy with values
  • reflect on personal political roots

Questions to consider

  • How does your past shape your politics?
  • What future does your voting reflect?

Another view

Not all political behavior stems from deep personal expression.

More from Paul Wellstone

  1. 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 a…

    Permalink to quote #11
  2. People have to hear words that not only sound right but feel right. I think it's in part the economic message, but it's also in part a message about community,…

    Permalink to quote #13
  3. Never separate the life you live from the words you speak.

    Permalink to quote #10

Related quotes

  1. I am part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro' Gleams that untravell'd world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move.

    Alfred (Lord) TennysonAlfred (Lord) Tennyson quote #111
  2. He who rejects the entire past, without keeping any part of it which could serve to breathe life into the revolution, condemns himself to finding justification…

    Albert CamusAlbert Camus quote #138
  3. Let every man honor and love the land of his birth and the race from which he springs and keep their memory green. It is a pious and honorable duty. But let us…

    Henry Cabot LodgeHenry Cabot Lodge quote #1