America is hope. It is compassion. It is excellence. It is valor.

- Paul Tsongas

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

- Paul Tsongas

The core of America is not racist. It is not hostile to women. It is increasingly offended by gay bashing. Yet it abhors government waste. It believe…

- 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 ch…

- Paul Tsongas

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

- 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 f…

- Paul Tsongas

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.

- Paul Tsongas

You are Americans. You love this country. Together we are entrusted with the principles that represent mankind's greatest political and social achiev…

- Paul Tsongas