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
If a teacher does not involve himself, his values, his commitments, in the course of discussion, why should the students? – Paul Wellstone
A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of peoples lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail. – Paul Wellstone
I think the future also will not belong to those who are cynical or those who stand on the sidelines. – Paul Wellstone
We have in this country a federal government that increasingly is engaged in trying to determine which business, which regions, which industries will succeed, which will not through a whole range of economic development, regional development corporate subsidization programs. – Stephen Harper