Paul Tsongas Quotes

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

I wish I had spent more time at the office.

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

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

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.

Breastroke is an athletic event, butterfly is a political statement.

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

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

You cannot be pro-jobs and anti-business at the same time. You cannot love employment and hate employers.

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

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

You are Americans. You love this country. Together we are entrusted with the principles that represent mankind's greatest political and social achievement.

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

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.

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 to you.

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.

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

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

The cold war is over; Japan won.

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

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

Our only weapons in this war of your lifetime are the weapons of the mind.

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

Democrats love employees, it's employers they hate.

I am an American. I love this country.

You can't have employment and despise employers ... No goose, no golden eggs.

I came from a disadvantaged home. They were Republicans.