Paul Wellstone
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"Paul David Wellstone" was an United States/American academic and politician who represented Minnesota in the United States Senate from 1991 until his death in a plane crash in 2002. A member of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party/Democratic Farmer-Labor Party, Wellstone was a leading spokesman for the progressive wing of the national Democratic Party (United States)/Democratic Party.

Born in Washington D.C., Wellstone graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a Bachelor of Arts/B.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science. He was a professor at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota/Northfield, Minnesota and a community organizing/community organizer in Rice County, Minnesota/Rice County prior to entering public office. In 1982, he ran an unsuccessful campaign for Minnesota State Auditor/State Auditor against Republican Arne Carlson.

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Never separate the life you live from the words you speak.

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Right now the whole does not equal the sum of the parts.

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There are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing and electoral politics.

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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.

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I think this is really a good example of the commercial calculus and ties taking precedence over everything else. It's sort of like the almighty dollar is triumphing over a lot of other values that we have as a nation.

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I'm here to represent the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party.

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I'm from the Democratic party-wing of the Democratic Party.

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I think we can do better. That is what Robert Kennedy always said. I think we can do better too. Won't you join me in the effort?

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

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