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It is the belief that extremes and excesses of inequality must be

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 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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I dont think politics has anything to do with left, right, or center. It has to do with trying to do right by people. – Paul Wellstone

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Ive rarely kept my distance from kind of – I dont know if we can call it politics, but kind of, civic engagement and that kind of thing, except I tended to think, Well, do it yourself before you start telling other people what they should be doing. – David Byrne

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My political science degree is always on the back-burner. I took my LSAT, so even if I want to take the LSAT again, I know what Im getting into. Ill keep it on the back-burner. Who knows, maybe with my popularity, I can have a career in politics with a law degree. I think itll work out either way. – Vinny Guadagnino

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A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt. – Woodrow Wilson

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Politics makes strange bedfellows. – Charles Dudley Warner

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I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. – Claude Monet

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