Paul Tsongas Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“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 from the consent of the governed.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”