It is the belief that extremes and exces... | Paul Wellstone

Time Politics

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

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The more I do bookstores, the more people come up to me from church groups. I spoke at Pittsburg State College and had 2 or 3 ministers and book groups from a couple of churches.

- Anita Diament

Other quotes by Paul Wellstone

Trying

Without trying, I'm different.

- Paul Wellstone

Creativity

I saw as a teacher how, if you take that spark of learning that those children have, and you ignite it, you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment.

- Paul Wellstone

Activism

Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia.

- Paul Wellstone

Power

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

- Paul Wellstone

Politics People

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

Faith

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

- Paul Wellstone

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Politics People

There's people coming in who've never done any politics at all, who've never been in a trade union, they've never been in a political party, they've never done anything, but they do feel a kind of urgency.

- Susan George

Politics

Politics is very interesting and always leads to conflict.

- Ridley Scott

Politics

The enemy is not just terrorism. It is the threat posed specifically by Islamist terrorism, by Bin Ladin and others who draw on a long tradition of extreme intolerance within a minority strain of Islam that does not distinguish politics from religion, and distorts both.

- John Cornyn

Man Politics

War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.

- Alfred Adler

Politics

Religion and morality are critical to how students think about politics and form opinions on political issues.

- Jeanne Shaheen

Publishing Power Politics

We're also far enough from the publishing power that we have no access to the politics of publishing, although there are interpersonal politics, of course.

- Katherine Dunn