Paul Tsongas Quotes

• 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.

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• I am an American. I love this country.

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• Let’s try winning and see what it feels like. If we don’t like it, we can go back to our traditions.

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

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

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

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• 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.

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• We are a continuum. Just as we reach back to our ancestors for our fundamental values, so we, as guardians of that legacy, must reach ahead to our children and their children. And we do so with a sense of sacredness in that reaching.

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

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• 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.

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Paul Tsongas (30)

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

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