What makes community organizing especially attractive is the faith it places in the ability of the poor to make decisions for themselves. – Paul Wellstone
Politics isnt about big money or power games its about the improvement of peoples lives. – 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
There are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing and electoral politics. – Paul Wellstone
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things. – T.S. Eliot, Tradition and the Individual Talent, 1919
After a few months in my parents basement, I took an apartment near the state university, where I discovered both crystal methamphetamine and conceptual art. Either one of these things are dangerous, but in combination they have the potential to destroy entire civilizations. – David Sedaris