50 Quotes by Paul Tsongas

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.

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.

You are Americans. You love this country. Together we are entrusted with the principles that represent mankind’s greatest political and social achievement.

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

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