wellstoneYesterday we posted video of Norm Coleman speaking at the Conservative Heartland Leadership Conference about cultivating “grass e-roots” to grow a movement based on conservative values. After the jump, see a clip of the man Coleman replaced in the U.S. Senate, Paul Wellstone, speaking just before his death in October 2002 on his concept of grassroots politics in America.

Wellstone Action, a group that carries on grassroots organizing work in the late Minnnesota senator’s name, distributed this video via Twitter today. In it, Wellstone talks about building grassroots leaders to create “a citizen politics that can beat a big money politics.”

If we’re going to have the kind of change in our country that’ll make the United States of America a better America, I guarantee you it’ll be the result of much more grassroots politics … I think we need to get our values out there, I think we need to get an exciting, bold agenda out there, and then I think we need to do a better job of doing the grassroots organizing and building our leadership. That’s the way we’re going to make the change in the country.

Here is the video: