Paul Wellstone Quotes

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

Every American is dependent on every other American; that no segment of our people can prosper without the prosperity of all; that in truth we must all go forward together.

No longer need capitalist and worker, farmer and clerk, city and countryside, struggle to divide our bounty. By working shoulder to shoulder, together we can increase the bounty of all.

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

The welfare of the weakest and the welfare of the most powerful are inseparably bound together. ... The general welfare cannot be provided for in any one act, but it is well to remember that the benefit of one is the benefit of all, and the neglect of one is the neglect of all.

In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down.

My real dream is that everybody will see their self-interest tied up with someone else, whether or not they see them, and see that as an opportunity for growing closer together as a culture and as a world.

The success of each of us benefits us all, and the success of us all benefits each of us individually.

We must learn for the sake of one another to make better choices guided by more holistic measures of the common good we share.

Nobody wins unless everybody wins.

We're all better off...when we're all better off.

Social progress makes the well-being of all more and more the business of each.

We find as our interdependence increases that, on the whole, we do better when other people do better as well.

The more you participate in our common endeavors, the more successful your work in the factory, mine, wharf or village, in an economic institute or in the arts, in commerce or administration, the sooner we will be where we all want to be.

The good fortune of America is closely tied to the good fortune of all humanity.

Fraternity without absorption, union without fusion.

All you now do is pursue your private objectives within society. Instead of us being a community, everybody is asked to seek their own personal ends. It's called competition. And competition is antagonism.

When we empower our communities, we are all better off.

Agreeing to share prosperity, rather than let it divide us, is infinitely preferable to the alternative.

People should give up the old concepts of 'you lose. I win', or zero-sum game, and establish a new concept of peaceful development and win-win cooperation. If China develops well, it will benefit the whole world and benefit the United States. If the United States develops well, it will also benefit the world and China.

In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers yet as one hand in all things essential to mutual progress..

What is not good for everyone is not good for anyone.

The only possible alternative to being either the oppressed or the oppressor is voluntary cooperation for the greatest good of all.

The prosperity of all is the interest of all.

We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community...Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own