Paul Wellstone Quotes

The world has come around to the view that democracy is essential for full human development. And only education and skill development can make this possible.

Three components - education, equality and empowerment - play an important and pivotal role in moving the country forward in every aspect.

That's the beauty of education, kids taking lessons out of the classroom and back into their own world where they can positively affect their family, their friends, and their greater community.

We Americans have the great gifts of freedom and democracy, but it has been our education system that has fulfilled the promise of democracy.

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

I always tell my students: I don't care which side you're on. I respect you too much to try to persuade you in 120 minutes a week, much less lure you into pretending that you agree with me. All I want is for you to own this democracy, to see yours, to have a stake in it.

I am true to my own race. I wish to see all done that can be done for their encouragement, to assist them in acquiring property, in becoming intelligent, enlightened, useful, valuable citizens.

Education enables people and societies to be what they can be.

The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused throughout a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.

I hope that people understand that with education, we can be our own superhero.

The objective of politics is always to build scenarios in which persons' horizons can be expanded evermore. Any political action that is aimed at restricting individuals' horizons is, as I see it, a regressive action in relation to the political values that I embrace.

Every single day matters when it comes to building a world where every person can live their life to the fullest.

Liberal education reminds those members of a mass democracy who have ears to hear, of human greatness.

What I think is that we should be helping people so they can reach an even greater potential.

I am for Obama, all the way. I don't support Obama just because he is a black man; I support him because he is an educated black man. He is making black people proud.

We're not going back anywhere, we're going forward, we're going forward in democracy, we're going forward in participation, we're going forward with ideas.

Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.

I'm no politician. I'm an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats universal education.

What are the American ideals? They are the development of the individual for his own and the common good; the development of the individual through liberty; and the attainment of the common good through democracy and social justice.

Education promotes equality and lifts people out of poverty. It teaches children how to become good citizens. Education is not just for a privileged few, it is for everyone. It is a fundamental human right.

It is not enough to merely defend democracy. To defend it may be to lose it; to extend it is to strengthen it. Democracy is not property; it is an idea.

Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.

True education is limited to those people who would die without knowing, whereas the masses in the institutions are merely going through the motions, for education is a way of living.

The mandate I have received and for which I will speak with heart and head to implement over the next seven years had its four pillars - an inclusive citizenship, equality and participation and respect in a creative society creating an excellence in everything we Irish do.

You can't vote your hates; you've got to vote your hopes.