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1. "...how can we live in the richest, most privileged country in the world, at the peak of its economic performance, and still hear the Republicans, and too many Democrats, that we cannot afford to provide a good education for every child, that we cannot afford to provide health security for all our citizens?" ~ Paul Wellstone

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

3. "I emphasize self-esteem, self-confidence, and dignity, not as an ideal, but as a real test of community organization. Without leadership development, community organizations do not have staying power." ~ Paul Wellstone

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

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

6. "I'm short, I'm Jewish and I'm a liberal." ~ Paul Wellstone

7. "Politics is not about power." ~ Paul Wellstone

8. "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." ~ Paul Wellstone

9. "Above and beyond the question of how to grow the economy there is a legitimate concern about how to grow the quality of our lives." ~ Paul Wellstone

10. "If we don't fight hard enough for the things we stand for, at some point we have to recognize that we don't really stand for them." ~ Paul Wellstone

11. "Never separate the life you live from the words you speak." ~ Paul Wellstone

12. "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." ~ Paul Wellstone

13. "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." ~ Paul Wellstone

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

15. "Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities." ~ Paul Wellstone

16. "If a teacher does not involve himself, his values, his commitments, in the course of discussion, why should the students?" ~ Paul Wellstone

17. "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

18. "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

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