ten years ago America lost a wonderful citizen

The great political tugs of the past 35 years have concerned the distribution of the golden eggs. In the 1980s and 1990s we must focus on the health of the goose.
Paul Tsongas

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

This land, this water, this air, this planet-this is our legacy to our young.
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.
Paul Tsongas

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.
Paul Tsongas

We were never meant to be the world's greatest debtor nation. We were never meant to have our ancestors' patrimony sold to the highest foreign bidder.
Paul Tsongas

We were never meant to have American workers rank ninth in the world in wage scales.
Paul Tsongas

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

You are Americans. You love this country. Together we are entrusted with the principles that represent mankind's greatest political and social achievement.
Paul Tsongas
 
Nobody on his deathbed ever said, "I wish I had spent more time at the office."
Paul Tsongas


Probably his most famous one
 
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