Paul Tsongas Quotes
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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.
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The cold war is over; Japan won.
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No one on his deathbed ever said, I wish I had spent more time on my business.
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You are Americans. You love this country. Together we are entrusted with the principles that represent mankind's greatest political and social achievement.
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We were never meant to be the world's greatest debtor nation. We were never meant to have our ancestors' patrimony sold to the highest foreign bidder.
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In my time it was the Kennedy call to public service in the Third World. Had there been no Peace Corps, my life would have been radically different.
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I am an American. I love this country.
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I have pretty much made up my mind to do this.
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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.
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Let's try winning and see what it feels like. If we don't like it, we can go back to our traditions.
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Our destiny is greatness and we must return to its fulfillment.
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Our only weapons in this war of your lifetime are the weapons of the mind.
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Thinking in generations also means enabling our young to have a decent standard of living.
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America is hope. It is compassion. It is excellence. It is valor.
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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.
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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.
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My father's generation gave to my generation a land of wealth and purpose and world economic dominance.
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I want to deploy the leadership to meet the challenges that face us and to restore America's greatness.
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When George Bush used the Willie Horton ad, he knew what he was doing.
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America is the sum of all our journeys as we search for our national community and our national culture.
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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.
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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.
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This land, this water, this air, this planet - this is our legacy to our young.
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That sense of sacredness, that thinking in generations, must begin with reverence for this earth.