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Quotes About Hope

What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expect generally happens.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
Hope springs eternal, even in politics.
~ Gwen Ifill
America is a nation with many flaws, but hopes so vast that only the cowardly would refuse to acknowledge them.
~ James A. Michener
All of us - we should do everything we can to make sure this country lives up to our children's expectations.
~ Barack Obama
We are soldiers of the cross, we've been found to reach the lost.
~ Randy Travis
The purification of politics is an iridescent dream.
~ John Ingalls
Hope is the fuel of progress and fear is the prison in which you put yourself.
~ Tony Benn
The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.
~ Thomas Huxley
I'll be like Scarlett O'Hara-I'll think about it tomorrow.
~ Ronald Reagan
Did you weep for the children who lost their dear loved ones and pray for the ones who don't know? Did you rejoice for the people who walked from the rubble, and sob for the ones left below?
~ Alan Jackson
If one candidate is appealing to your fears, and the other one's appealing to your hopes, you'd better vote for the person who wants you to think and hope!
~ Bill Clinton
I'm on my knees begging, please come and save me.
~ Tupac Shakur
Peace, bread, work, and freedom is the best we can achieve.
~ Billy Bragg
In politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn.
~ Lawrence Summers
The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories.
~ Christopher Lasch
There is only one redeeming thing about this whole election. It will be over at sundown, and let everybody pray that it's not a tie, for we couldn't go through with this thing again.
~ Will Rogers
Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
The number one responsibility for each of us is to change ourselves with hope that others will follow.
~ Ron Paul
The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion.
~ Stanley Baldwin
I'm an idealist without illusions.
~ John F. Kennedy
It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.
~ Thomas Carlyle
The hope is there. The sun is rising. Our best days are yet to come.
~ John F. Kerry
President Obama chose politics over leadership. 'Hope' and 'Change' have become bait-and-switch.
~ Lindsey Graham
All politicians promise that which they cannot deliver. I just wish they did so less gleefully.
~ Dov Davidoff