Paul Tsongas Quotes

32 quotes in 435 categories

• Our destiny is greatness and we must return to its fulfillment.
• Breastroke is an athletic event, butterfly is a political statement.
• A commencement is a time of joy. It is also a time of melancholy. But then again, so is life.
• That's a good question. Let me try to evade you.
• Let's try winning and see what it feels like. If we don't like it, we can go back to our traditions.
• That sense of sacredness, that thinking in generations, must begin with reverence for this earth.
• You are Americans. You love this country. Together we are entrusted with the principles that represent mankind's greatest political and social achievement.
• America is the sum of all our journeys as we search for our national community and our national culture.
• I want to deploy the leadership to meet the challenges that face us and to restore America's greatness.
• 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…
• 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,…
• 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…
• 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 am an American. I love this country.
• Democrats love employees, it's employers they hate.
• America is hope. It is compassion. It is excellence. It is valor.
• Thinking in generations also means enabling our young to have a decent standard of living.
• 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…
• My father's generation gave to my generation a land of wealth and purpose and world economic dominance.
• Our only weapons in this war of your lifetime are the weapons of the mind.

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