Wellstone was expected to receive a lot of information (from the human-rights groups) about violence committed by the Colombian army, ... If he would be taking that back to the Senate floor, that actually helps the PR campaign of the rebels. It is a strain to think they would want to kill him.
Quotes about wellstone (10 Quotes)
I want to make it clear to people that we want to make this decision as a Democratic family together, just as Sen. Wellstone would want it to be.
During a recent conversation with former Nebraska Senator Bob Kerrey, Wellstone joked about his legacy. According to Kerrey, Wellstone said, I think my epitaph is going to read, 'We don't know what he did, but he sure looked tired.' ... Now I think his epitaph will be, 'We didn't realize what a good man he was until he was gone.'
The Republicans in the middle of a memorial service decided to call it politics. It wasn't politics it was Paul Wellstone.
He's a person who would look forward to doing the things that Paul Wellstone wanted to do -- do something about health care reform, take care of the underprivileged by passing a minimum wage,
The political world is still reeling tonight from yesterday's nauseating display in Minnesota, where a memorial service for the late Senator Paul Wellstone was hijacked by partisan zealots and turned into a political rally. Republican friends of Senator Wellstone were booed and shouted down as they tried to speak.
The choice of the Wellstone family is Mr. Mondale. Mondale said if the Democratic Party would ask him to run, he would absolutely consider that.
While it had a little bit of a rally feel, and they were talking about public policy and public policy issues, that was Senator Wellstone through and through. I mean, he did not talk those issues for politics he talked these issues for passion.
It's a chance to take some resources from the Wellstone site and turn it into something good, ... And it's the kids (Youth in Action) who have done a lot of the work on this project. They deserve a lot of the credit.
Over 12 years and nearly two Senate terms, Wellstone never wavered in his convictions, but he gradually adjusted his style to the courtly atmosphere of the Senate. Just how well he had adapted was evident in the hours after his campaign plane crashed two miles from a small airport last Friday 175 miles north of Minneapolis. (Also aboard were Wellstone's wife Sheila, daughter Marcia, three campaign-staff members and two pilots. There were no survivors.) Despite the marked contrast between Paul's and my views on matters of government and politics, ... he was my friend. And I was his.