Author: Paul Tsongas

Quotes

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

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

- Paul Tsongas

I want to deploy the leadership to meet the challenges that face us and to restore America's greatness.

I want to deploy the leadership to meet the challenges that face us and to restore America's greatness.

- 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.

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

I am an American. I love this country.

I am an American. I love this country.

- Paul Tsongas

A commencement is a time of joy. It is also a time of melancholy. But then again, so is life.

A commencement is a time of joy. It is also a time of melancholy. But then again, so is life.

- Paul Tsongas

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

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

- Paul Tsongas

Don't fear your mortality, because it is this very mortality that gives meaning and depth and poignancy to all the days that will be granted to you.

Don't fear your mortality, because it is this very mortality that gives meaning and depth and poignancy to all the days that will be granted to you.

- Paul Tsongas

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

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

- 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.

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.

- Paul Tsongas

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