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

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

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

I was talking about no nukes, the farm crisis. People said that wasn't stuff that a state auditor was supposed to be talking about. Maybe they were right.

- 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

I'm short, I'm Jewish and I'm a liberal.

- Paul Wellstone

Politics is not about money.

- Paul Wellstone

Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning.

- 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

I represent the Democratic wing of the Democratic party.

- Paul Wellstone

Without trying, I'm different.

- Paul Wellstone

We can remake the world daily.

- Paul Wellstone

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

- Paul Wellstone

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

- Paul Wellstone

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

- Paul Wellstone

Our politics are our deepest form of expression: they mirror our past experiences and reflect our dreams and aspirations for the future.

- Paul Wellstone

If a teacher does not involve himself, his values, his commitments, in the course of discussion, why should the students?

- Paul Wellstone

Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities.

- Paul Wellstone

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

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

- Paul Wellstone