Quote

The Americans are optimistic by their nature. And they are hopeful.

These days I wonder more and more why people are pessimistic when American history actually supports optimism.

We're the roughest people in the way we play and live, and that is because Americans come from people who all got up one morning and went 5,000 miles, and that was a time in the 19th century when it wasn't so easy to do.

I'm optimistic about the country; I'm optimistic about the American people.

We Americans typically are more positive about our individual futures, which we have some control over, than we are the nation's or the world's, which we see largely through the media prism.

Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.

Americans often have trouble enjoying the present moment.

We are optimistic, but we are optimistic in a cautious fashion.

We've got the wind at our back right now. Americans are waking up to the realities of their previous choices. We must keep America moving back to preeminence because our values and conservative ideas are the world's greatest hope.