Paul Tsongas Quotes
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Lowell is my home. It is where I drew my first breath. It is where I will always derive a sense of place and a sense of belonging
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Two hundred years ago, our Founding Fathers gave us a democracy. It was based upon the simple, yet noble, idea that government derives its validity from the consent of the governed.
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When George Bush used the Willie Horton ad, he knew what he was doing.
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I want to deploy the leadership to meet the challenges that face us and to restore America's greatness.
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Journey with me to a true commitment to our environment. Journey with me to the serenity of leaving to our children a planet in equilibrium.
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You can't have employment and despise employers ... No goose, no golden eggs.
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You are Americans. You love this country. Together we are entrusted with the principles that represent mankind's greatest political and social achievement.
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America is hope. It is compassion. It is excellence. It is valor.
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I am an American. I love this country.
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We are a continuum. Just as we reach back to our ancestors for our fundamental values, so we, as guardians of that legacy, must reach ahead to our children and their children. And we do so with a sense of sacredness in that reaching.
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The core of America is not racist. It is not hostile to women. It is increasingly offended by gay bashing. Yet it abhors government waste. It believes strongly in fiscal responsibility such as balanced budgets. It is pro-economic growth. It is concerned about the environment. It is intolerant of people on welfare who disdain the notion of work. But it wants poor kids to have school lunches and it wants to spend money to have good schools. In sum, most Americans are sensible, good-hearted, and prudent. The issue, then, is whether there is a political party that can welcome them home.
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You cannot be pro-jobs and anti-business at the same time. You cannot love employment and hate employers.
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In this era of the global village, the tide of democracy is running. And it will not cease, not in China, not in South Africa, not in any corner of this earth, where the simple idea of democracy and freedom has taken root.
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That sense of sacredness, that thinking in generations, must begin with reverence for this earth.
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Breastroke is an athletic event, butterfly is a political statement.
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Democrats love employees, it's employers they hate.
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A commencement is a time of joy. It is also a time of melancholy. But then again, so is life.
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Let's try winning and see what it feels like. If we don't like it, we can go back to our traditions.
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From a viable economy to the full funding of Headstart, from a clean environment to true equality for women, from a strong military to a commitment to racial brotherhood, from schools that are honored to streets free of excessive violence.
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This land, this water, this air, this planet - this is our legacy to our young.
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Thinking in generations also means enabling our young to have a decent standard of living.
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No one on his deathbed ever said, "I wish I had spent more time on my business."
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Our only weapons in this war of your lifetime are the weapons of the mind.
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It was a myth that's often perpetuated at commencement that holds that only hope and promise lie beyond the halls of academe. Don't worry, be happy. Everything is fine.
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Seven and half years ago I began my own journey. For me and my family it was a time of adversity. But during that adversity I derived a deeper faith. And born out of that adversity was a commitment to devote myself to those people and to those issues that truly matter to me.
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Don't fear your mortality, because it is this very mortality that gives meaning and depth and poignancy to all the days that will be granted to you.
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Our destiny is greatness and we must return to its fulfillment.
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That's a good question. Let me try to evade you.
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America is the sum of all our journeys as we search for our national community and our national culture.
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I wish I had spent more time at the office.
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Paul Tsongas
- Born: February 14, 1941
- Died: January 18, 1997
- Occupation: Former United States Senator
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