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.

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• 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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• 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.

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

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

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

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• 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.

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

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  Tags in Generation, Dominance, Wealth

• 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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• 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.

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Paul Tsongas (30)

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

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