Paul Tsongas Quotes

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

Young, Water, Land

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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Environmental, True, Children

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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Government, Simple, Democracy

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

Children, Sense, Values

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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Women, Equality, Strong

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

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

Hope, America, Compassion

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

That's a good question. Let me try to evade you.
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Good, Try, Question

A commencement is a time of joy. It is also a time of melancholy. But then again, so is life.
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Life, Time, Joy

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

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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Fear, Days, Meaning

I am an American. I love this country.
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Love, Country, American

I have pretty much made up my mind to do this.
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Mind, Made, Pretty

I want to deploy the leadership to meet the challenges that face us and to restore America's greatness.
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Leadership, America, Greatness

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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Freedom, Simple, Democracy

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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Hope, Happy, Lie

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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Winning, Try, Feels

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

No one is immune from the larger events of his or her time - the Depression, World War II, civil rights, Vietnam, the spring of 1989 in China. These events intrude upon our lives and radically affect our directions.
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Time, War, Depression

Our destiny is greatness and we must return to its fulfillment.
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Destiny, Greatness, Return

Our only weapons in this war of your lifetime are the weapons of the mind.
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War, Mind, Lifetime

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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Faith, Family, Time

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

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

Nationality: American

Type: Politician

Born: February 14, 1941

Died: January 18, 1997

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