Author Profile
Paul Tsongas
1941 – 1997 • American • Politician
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Collected Meditations
Showing 27 quotesMy father's generation gave to my generation a land of wealth and purpose and world economic dominance.— Paul Tsongas
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.— Paul Tsongas
America is the sum of all our journeys as we search for our national community and our national culture.— Paul Tsongas
I want to deploy the leadership to meet the challenges that face us and to restore America's greatness.— Paul Tsongas
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
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
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
Let's try winning and see what it feels like. If we don't like it, we can go back to our traditions.— Paul Tsongas
That sense of sacredness, that thinking in generations, must begin with reverence for this earth.— Paul Tsongas
Thinking in generations also means enabling our young to have a decent standard of living.— Paul Tsongas
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
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.— Paul Tsongas