Cynical Quote by Condoleezza Rice

I'm moderately optimistic. We Americans are an enormous country with more than 300 million people so there's reason for optimism.

— Newt Gingrich

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

— Howard Schultz

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

— Chaka Fattah

Since I live part of the year in Italy, I live in a society in which I'm the optimistic American relative to the people…

— Jonathon Keats

What distinguishes Americans from many people in the world is our kind of endemic optimism.

— Madeleine Albright

Optimism is America's birthright.... There is no social problem Americans dare not attack. No problem, that is, except one: about marriage, and marriage alone,…

— Maggie Gallagher

Optimism is a political act. Those who benefit from the status quo are perfectly happy for us to think nothing is going to get…

— Alex Steffen

I am not optimistic, but I've never been optimistic about humankind or America. The evidence never looks good in terms of forces for good…

— Cornel West

I'm always sort of optimistic about how good we are, as a country, at fixing ourselves.

— George Clooney

Optimism - even, and perhaps especially in the face of difficulty - has long been an American hallmark.

— Pamela Druckerman

The fact that Americans do have this ingrained optimism, even against a lot of actual information about how things work, is not that bad…

— Brendan Hunt

Optimism is infectious, and opportunity irresistible. Progress follows progress. Someone, even government, just has to get it started.

— Gloria Macapagal Arroyo