Paul Tsongas Quotes

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.

Democrats love employees, it's employers they hate.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

I wish I had spent more time at the office.

The core of America is not racist. It is not hostile to women. It is increasingly offended by gay bashing. Yet it abhors government waste. It believes strongly in fiscal responsibility such as balanced budgets. It is pro-economic growth. It is concerned about the environment. It is intolerant of people on welfare who disdain the notion of work. But it wants poor kids to have school lunches and it wants to spend money to have good schools. In sum, most Americans are sensible, good-hearted, and prudent. The issue, then, is whether there is a political party that can welcome them home.

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.

I am an American. I love this country.

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

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