Paul Tsongas Quotes

• You cannot be pro-jobs and anti-government at the same time. You cannot love employees and despise employers. You cannot redistribute wealth that you never created. No goose, no golden egg.

  Paul Tsongas

  Topics in Uncategorized

• We are becoming an economic colony. America is up for sale. One percent of Japan’s manufacturing base is foreign-owned; 2 per cent of Germany’s is; 3 per cent of France’s. Ours is 18 per cent and growing rapidly.

  Paul Tsongas

  Topics in Uncategorized

• I came from a disadvantaged home. They were Republicans.

  Paul Tsongas

  Topics in Politics

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

  Paul Tsongas

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Time

• Our destiny is greatness and we must return to its fulfillment.

  Paul Tsongas

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Greatness, Destiny

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Intrude, Immune, China, Depression

• I have pretty much made up my mind to do this.

  Paul Tsongas

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Pretty, Mind

• 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

  Topics in Achievement

  Tags in Represent, Principles

• 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.

  Paul Tsongas

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Perpetuate, Commencement, Lie

• 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.

  Paul Tsongas

  Topics in Environment

  Tags in Serenity, Environmental, Journey

• America is hope. It is compassion. It is excellence. It is valor.

  Paul Tsongas

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Compassion, Excellence, Valor

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

  Paul Tsongas

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Weapon

• My father’s generation gave to my generation a land of wealth and purpose and world economic dominance.

  Paul Tsongas

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Generation, Dominance, Wealth

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

  Paul Tsongas

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Legacy, Water

• 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.

  Paul Tsongas

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Political, Tide, Global Village, Simple

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Devote, Deeper, Adversity

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

  Paul Tsongas

  Topics in Challenge, Leadership

  Tags in Greatness, Restore

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

  Paul Tsongas

  Tags in Melancholy, Commencement

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

  Paul Tsongas

  Tags in Journeys, National Culture

• 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

  Tags in Poignancy, Mortality, Depth

Paul Tsongas (30)

Birth:	14th February, 1941
Death:	18th January, 1997
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Politician

Related Authors

• Wayne Allard
• Richard Burr
• Pieter Willem Botha
• Henry Cantwell Wallace
• George Grenville
• Oliver St John
• Henri Queuille
• Frank Jordan
• Robert Ellsworth Wise Jr.
• Hjalmar Branting

Advertisement

Today's Anniversary - 30th September

Births

• 1207 - Rumi
• 1932 - Shintaro Ishihara
• 1933 - Michel Aoun
• 1947 - Marc Bolan
• 1954 - Barry Williams

Deaths

• 1986 - Storm Jameson
• 1985 - Simone Signoret
• 1811 - Thomas Percy
• 1989 - Virgil Thomson
• 2010 - Joseph Sobran