Quote #5

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.

More from Paul Wellstone

  1. 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…
  2. I represent the Democratic wing of the Democratic party.
  3. As free citizens in a political democracy, we have a responsibility to be interested and involved in the affairs of the human community, be…
  4. 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 backg…
  5. Above and beyond the question of how to grow the economy there is a legitimate concern about how to grow the quality of our lives.
  6. I think the prophetic tradition of our faith is that to love God is to love justice.
  7. 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,…
  8. If we don't fight hard enough for the things we stand for, at some point we have to recognize that we don't really stand for them.

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