My father’s generation gave to my generation a land of wealth and purpose and world economic dominance. Paul Tsongas Read Quote
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. Paul Tsongas Read Quote
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. Paul Tsongas Read Quote
America is the sum of all our journeys as we search for our national community and our national culture. Paul Tsongas Read Quote
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. Paul Tsongas Read Quote
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. Paul Tsongas Read Quote
That sense of sacredness, that thinking in generations, must begin with reverence for this earth. Paul Tsongas Read Quote
I want to deploy the leadership to meet the challenges that face us and to restore America’s greatness. Paul Tsongas Read Quote
You are Americans. You love this country. Together we are entrusted with the principles that represent mankind’s greatest political and social achievement. Paul Tsongas Read Quote
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. Paul Tsongas Read Quote
