It has never been and never will be easy work! But the road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair even though they both lead to the same destination.

As great scientists have said and as all children know it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.

There is something uniquely depressing about the fact that the National Portrait Gallery's version of the Barack Obama 'Hope' poster previously belonged to a pair of lobbyists. Depressing because Mr. Obama's Washington was not supposed to be the lobbyists' Washington the place we learned to despise during the last administration.

Our shared conservative values our belief in the individual is the great hope of our nation.

When I think about the world I would like to leave to my daughter and the grandchildren I hope to have it is a world that moves away from unequal unstable unsustainable interdependence to integrated communities - locally nationally and globally - that share the characteristics of all successful communities.

The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.

Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.

Having a sense of purpose is having a sense of self. A course to plot is a destination to hope for.

If you use your imagination you can look at any actress and see her nude... I hope to make you use your imagination.

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.