Paul Wellstone Politicians and Politics quotes

" 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. " # Politicians and Politics # Circumstance # Failure

" 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. " # Politicians and Politics # Love # Cities and City Life

" I represent the Democratic wing of the Democratic party. " # Politicians and Politics

" 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! " # Politicians and Politics # Life and Living # Heaven

" Our politics are our deepest form of expression: they mirror our past experiences and reflect our dreams and aspirations for the future. " # Politicians and Politics # Past # Dreams

" 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. " # Politicians and Politics # Peace # Money

" 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. " # Politicians and Politics # Imagination # Hope

" The people of this country, not special interest big money, should be the source of all political power. " # Politicians and Politics # Money # Power