Anthony Lewis Quotes

Vermonters often ask me whether I am pessimistic about the future of our country. My honest answer is that I am not.

The U.S. is an optimistic nation. No candidate has ever won the American presidency by speaking primarily to people's deepest fears and by manufacturing a sense of apocalypse - that our leaders 'can't do anything right,' that things are utterly falling apart.

I'm a huge optimist.

I believe in America, and I still do.

I believe in America. I believe in her purpose and her promise. I believe her best days have not yet been lived. I believe her greatest deeds are reserved for the generations to come.

What we can borrow from Ronald Reagan... is that great sense of optimism. He led by building on the strengths of America, not running America down.

I'm an optimist by nature.

I'm an eternal optimist.

I always was and always will be optimistic.

I'm always an optimist!

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

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

And this President wakes up every morning, looks out across America and is proud to announce, 'It could be worse.' It could be worse? Is that what it means to be an American? It could be worse? Of course not. What defines us as Americans is our unwavering conviction that we know it must be better.

I am an optimist.

Don't sell America short.

America has much greatness left in her.

I have an unreasonably optimistic view of the world.

I'm an optimist at heart.

I am a huge optimist.

As for me, I'm an optimist.

I believe in America. I believe in Americans.

I'm a real optimist.

I think Americans want to believe in this country again.

These days I wonder more and more why people are pessimistic when American history actually supports optimism.

I tend to be a great optimist when it comes to the United States and the American way of life, I think precisely because I wasn't born into it.