America Quote by Michael J. Fox

I think Americans expect optimism in their leadership. The most popular and effective leaders, whether it was Bill Clinton or Ronald Reagan or Jack…

— David Brooks

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

— Pamela Druckerman

“The consistent optimism of our liberal culture has prevented modern democratic societies both from gauging the perils of freedom accurately and from appreciating democracy…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

“What I didn’t expect was that in this country, home of “Truth, Justice and the American way,” hope would be determined by politics.”

— Christopher Reeve

“The most clear-sided view of the darkest possible situation is itself an act of optimism”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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

“the optimism, the boundless confidence of a society that had not yet seen or imagined the world wars, the belief that humankind had the…

— Adam Hochschild

“The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is…

— Oscar Wilde

“It is not usually our ideas that make us optimists or pessimists, but it is our optimism or pessimism that makes our ideas.”

— Miguel de Unamuno

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

— Chaka Fattah

Optimism is a revolutionary act

— Cameron Crowe

“Pessimism has its own secret Share of optimism in it too.”

— Angela Suba Natarajan