Douglas Alexander Quotes

It is not enough to look backwards with pride, justified as that pride may be. We must look forward with hope and confidence, too.

I have a great belief in the future of my people and my country.

We Americans have always felt a special kinship with the future.

It's not too late, I can still live my dreams.

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.

President Obama's election has taught us to stop being paralyzed by excuses and given us a floodgate of hope. I'm more daring and going after things that I once thought were not possible.

I am very excited about the future.

For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction.

You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'

I'm really excited about the future.

So moderates of the world unite! We have nothing to lose but our pessimism. Either we make the future bury the past, or the bad guys will ensure that the past buries the future.

Resuscitation will not be promoted by recrimination. The distrust of the present will not be relieved by a distrust of the future. A patriot makes a better citizen than a pessimist. And we have got to be patient.

If all greatness lies in the past, what is the point of the future?

People are tired of being told that this is as good as it gets. They hear in Donald Trump someone who says, 'We can do better.'

When I was 20 and 30, my visions for what the world would be, all things were possible.

Hope in the future is deeply rooted in our national psyche. It is part of the soul of our nation.

I still have a dream.

Dreaming of a tomorrow, which tomorrow, will be as distant then as 'tis today.

I think Americans want to believe in this country again.

I believe that I am only at a beginning, only knocking at a door, and I believe that the best is yet to come.

If you have a dream, don't let anybody take it away, and always believe that the impossible is possible.

I propose changing fear for hope. I propose changing Mexico.

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

Furthermore I will just have to see what the future will bring me. But a change of food whets the appetite.

We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.