Quotes by Paul Tsongas

About Paul Tsongas:

Paul Efthemios Tsongas was a United States Senator from Massachusetts from 1979 to 1985. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in the 1992 presidential election. He previously served as a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts's 5th congressional district (1975–1979) and held local political office.
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You are part of that horrid expression, the best and the brightest. It can be a terrible burden if you let it be, but it is the great challenge of your time. And being a warrior in that challenge should be wondrous.

Paul Tsongas

Let's try winning and see what it feels like. If we don't like it, we can go back to our traditions.

Paul Tsongas

When George Bush used the Willie Horton ad, he knew what he was doing.

Paul Tsongas

I have pretty much made up my mind to do this.

Paul Tsongas

Our destiny is greatness and we must return to its fulfillment.

Paul Tsongas

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.

Paul Tsongas

Thinking in generations also means enabling our young to have a decent standard of living.

Paul Tsongas

That sense of sacredness, that thinking in generations, must begin with reverence for this earth.

Paul Tsongas

This land, this water, this air, this planet - this is our legacy to our young.

Paul Tsongas

America is the sum of all our journeys as we search for our national community and our national culture.

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My father's generation gave to my generation a land of wealth and purpose and world economic dominance.

Paul Tsongas

I came from a disadvantaged home. They were Republicans.

Paul Tsongas

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.

Paul Tsongas

No one on his deathbed ever said, I wish I had spent more time on my business.

Paul Tsongas

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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America is hope. It is compassion. It is excellence. It is valor.

Paul Tsongas

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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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.

Paul Tsongas

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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That's a good question. Let me try to evade you.

Paul Tsongas

Author Bio

  • NamePaul Tsongas
  • DescriptionAmerican politician
  • BornFebruary 14, 1941
  • DiedJanuary 18, 1997
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPolitician