Paul Tsongas Quotes


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. - 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



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