Wellstone Quotes

There are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing and electoral politics. - Paul Wellstone

The vice president can say whatever he wants to say to try to score a point. - Paul Wellstone

The Republicans in the middle of a memorial service decided to call it politics. It wasn't politics; it was Paul Wellstone. - Mike Erlandson

The problem is that this budget, there is no investment. This budget doesn't really represent, doesn't advance the cause of these children. If anything it is a retreat. - Paul Wellstone

The political world is still reeling tonight from yesterday's nauseating display in Minnesota, where a memorial service for the late Senator Paul Wellstone was hijacked by partisan zealots and turned into a political rally. Republican friends of Senator Wellstone were booed and shouted down as they tried to speak. - Tucker Carlson

The people of this country, not special interest big money, should be the source of all political power. - Paul Wellstone

The only way to change is to vote. People are responsible. - Paul Wellstone

The kind of national goal we ought to be thinking about is way beyond national product - it is how do we as a nation help our children be the best kinds of people they could possibly be? - Paul Wellstone

The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy. - Paul Wellstone

The future will not belong to those who sit on the sidelines. The
future will not belong to the cynics. The future belongs to those who
believe in the beauty of their dreams. - Paul Wellstone