Paul Wellstone Quotes

We cannot be accountable to the citizens of our country if we go into closed session or secret session and the people in country are all of a sudden cut out; that would be a terrible thing to do in a representative democracy.

- Paul Wellstone

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I think this is really a good example of the commercial calculus and ties taking precedence over everything else. It's sort of like the almighty dollar is triumphing over a lot of other values that we have as a nation. - Paul Wellstone

Commercial ties and trying to sort of make all the profit that we can make has trumped all concern for human rights. And that's not what our country is about. - Paul Wellstone

I'm here to represent the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party. - Paul Wellstone