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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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Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia. ↗

— Paul Wellstone

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Politics is not about money. ↗

— Paul Wellstone

#money #politics

Politics is not about power. ↗

— Paul Wellstone

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Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning. ↗

— Paul Wellstone

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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

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What the poor, the weak, and the inarticulate desperately require is power, organization, and a sense of identity and purpose, not rarefied advice of political scientists. ↗

— Paul Wellstone

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When I started off with Trainspotting, it was the way the characters came to me. That's how they sounded to me. It seemed pretentious to sound any other way. I wasn't making any kind of political statement. ↗

— Irvine Welsh

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For years all I seemed to be doing was lobbying politicians and others to persuade them that European culture needed movies, and that we had to protect it. ↗

— Wim Wenders

#doing #european #had #i #lobbying

There's a tendency in politics to attribute bad motivation much too quickly, and the sooner you attribute bad motivation to someone you disagree with, the harder it is to find some common ground to make some progress that would give people confidence that you got it more right than wrong. ↗

— Peter Welch

#bad #common #common ground #confidence #disagree