Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning.
Paul Wellstone

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.
Paul Wellstone

Politics isn't about big money or power games; it's about the improvement of people's lives.
Paul Wellstone

Sometimes, the only realists are the dreamers.
Paul Wellstone

Successful organizing is based on the recognition that people get organized because they, too, have a vision.
Paul Wellstone

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.
Paul Wellstone

The first task in teaching is to bring to consciousness what the students already believe by virtue of their personal experiences about themselves and society.
Paul Wellstone

The future will belong to those who have passion and are willing to work hard to make our country better.
Paul Wellstone

The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy.
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 only way to change is to vote. People are responsible.
Paul Wellstone

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

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

There is a major ingredient missing from our perception of how changes are brought about; that ingredient is power.
Paul Wellstone

We can and must move U.S. politics forward by means of committed participation.
Paul Wellstone

We can remake the world daily.
Paul Wellstone

What makes community organizing especially attractive is the faith it places in the ability of the poor to make decisions for themselves.
Paul Wellstone

What the poor, the weak, and the inarticulate desperately require is power, organization, and a sense of identity and purpose, not rarefied advice of political scientists.
Paul Wellstone

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.
Paul Wellstone

Why don't we call on the credit card companies to be accountable? They need to be held accountable for their predatory lending practices.
Paul Wellstone