9 Paul Wellstone Quotes on Politics

Paul Wellstone quotes on politics

1. 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.

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.

6. I represent the Democratic wing of the Democratic party.

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

14. Politics is not about power. Politics is not about money. Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning. Politics is about the improvement of people's lives. It's about advancing the cause of peace and justice in our country and the world. Politics is about doing well for the people.

15. 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.

17. The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power which is the principal threat to our democracy.

20. 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.

24. 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.