"A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving."
"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning."
Albert Einstein on Hope"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope."
Martin Luther King, Jr. on Hope"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on Hope"My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return."
Maya Angelou on Hope"I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe."
Dalai Lama on Hope"I came of age believing that, no matter what happened, I would always be able to support myself."
"Democrats think the country works better with a strong middle class, real opportunities for poor people to work their way into it and a relentless focus on the future, with business and government working together to promote growth and broadly shared prosperity. We think 'we're all in this together' is a better philosophy than 'you're on your own.'"
"Where are the jobs going to come from?Small business, manufacturing and clean energy. Where's the money to finance them? The banks and the corporations in America today have lots of money that they can invest right now."
"Because primarily of the power of the Internet, people of modest means can band together and amass vast sums of money that can change the world for some public good if they all agree."
"It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics, because discrimination, poverty and ignorance restrict growth, while investments in education, infrastructure and scientific and technological research increase it, creating more good jobs and new wealth for all of us."