Commercial ties and trying to sort of make all the profit that we can make has trumped all concern for human rights. And that's not what our country is about,
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I want to make sure there are votes to deal with serious human rights questions, the rights of workers to organize, trade compliance, ... It's something that I can do and should do and I'll be out there. I don't intend to be shut out.Paul Wellstone
The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy.
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If we don't fight hard enough for the things we stand for, at some point we have to recognize that we don't really stand for them.
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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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There is a major ingredient missing from our perception of how changes are brought about; that ingredient is power.
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