When too many Americans don... by Paul Wellstone, an American Politician

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“When too many Americans don't vote or participate, some see apathy and despair. I see disappointment and even outrage. And I believe that out of this frustration can come hope and action.”

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Name: Paul Wellstone

Nationality: American

Date of Birth: Jul 21, 1944

Date of Death: Oct 25, 2002

Profession: Politician

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Above and beyond the question of how to grow the economy there is a legitimate concern about how to grow the quality of our lives.

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The kind of national goal we ought to be thinking about is way beyond national product - it is how do we as a nation help our children be the best kinds of people they could possibly be?

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The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy.

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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.

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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.

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