Sheldon Whitehouse Quotes

So the America I came to know growing up was filled with all the excitement and possibilities found in living the American dream.

An unlimited future. Isn't that what America is all about?

Now is the moment when we can stand up and say, 'I'm an American. I make my destiny. And we deserve better! My children deserve better! My family deserves better. My country deserves better!' So here we stand. Americans have a choice.

Our nation is defined by an unshakable belief that we, the people, have the ability to control our destiny. A belief that anyone can reach out and grab opportunity and create a more prosperous future for themselves, their children and their grandchildren.

Our task is to help replace ... despair with opportunity.

The future is in our hands!

But since her earliest days, America has inspired people from all over the world. Inspired them with the hope that one day their own countries would be one like this one.

Truly, this is a nation that sees itself as one that instills hope and is really about allowing people to pursue their dreams.

There is here, what is not in the old country. In spite of hard, unfamiliar things, there is here - hope. In the old country, a man can be no more than his father, providing he works hard. If his father was a carpenter, he may be a carpenter. He many not be a teacher or a priest. He may rise - but only to his father's state. In the old country, a man is given to the past. Here he belongs to the future. In this land, he may be what he will, if he has the good heart and the way of working honestly at the right things.

I still have a dream.

When one door is closed, don't you know, another is open.

Many people remember that spirit that President Kennedy summoned forth. Many people look to me as somebody who embodies that sense of possibility.

A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you... where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire.

We still believe in the America that is a land of opportunity and a beacon of freedom. We believe in the America that challenges each of us to be better and bigger than ourselves.

What I love best in life is new starts.

The genius of America is that we are still a land of undiscovered shores, and we are at our best when we open our hearts and allow the night winds to bring renewed visions of great deeds.

Each year is a new year.

This is America, where everything is still possible.

You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.

In America, all things are possible.

Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.

I can't change the past, but one person can change the future - anything can happen.

The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.

Through the potent example of his own life, President Obama enabled us to believe the best about America, and, therefore, about ourselves. That uplifting narrative - essentially equating the promise of America with his extraordinary life story - swept candidate Obama into the presidency.