50 Quotes by Paul Tsongas

I am an American. I love this country.

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

That's a good question. Let me try to evade you.

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

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.

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.

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

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

I have pretty much made up my mind to do this,