Quotes from Paul Tsongas

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

I am an American. I love this country.

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.

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.