42 ordspråk av Paul Wellstone
Paul Wellstone
The vice president can say whatever he wants to say to try to score a point,
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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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This is a class issue. These are poor people we're talking about. None of us ever are put in this situation. President Bush, whatever happened to compassionate conservatism?
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This is a loophole that must be plugged,
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This is one big, huge gigantic leap sideways, or backward.
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Victories should be won by people where they live, but if the victories never affect national or international centers of decision-making power, then we are still not seriously contesting for power.
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virtual wish list for multinational corporations.
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We cannot be accountable to the citizens of our country if we go into closed session or secret session and the people in country are all of a sudden cut out; that would be a terrible thing to do in a representative democracy.
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We had discussion. We had votes. We dealt with issues that were important to people's lives. We voted yes. We voted no. We had some vitality,
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We have got to stop saying that we want to do well by children and invest in education and invest in job training and then essentially retreat from that,
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Where are the resources to make sure that all the children in America have the same chance to do well? And when they don't do well on this test, or the schools don't do well, where are the additional resources to help them? Not in this bill.
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Why don't we call on the credit card companies to be accountable? ... They need to be held accountable for their predatory lending practices.
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