50 Quotes by 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.

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.

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

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.

Thinking in generations also means enabling our young to have a decent standard of living.

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.

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.

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