Barack Obama Quotes

I don't buy the hype when everybody is saying how wonderful things are and how great I am, and I don't get too down when people say, "This is a disaster and he's done for."

People like Bill Maher, who brags about being a cynic, it sickens me. I am the least cynical person I know, and I am very, very skeptical.

A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.

I'm not interested in 'lovey dovey,' everything is so great in the world. That doesn't interest me at all.

I don't much believe in the hype of anything or anybody, not even myself.

Whatever is proposed, it is much easier to find reasons for rejecting than embracing.

Cynicism often draws correct conclusions, but nobody could live by its lights.

Perpetual optimism is annoying. It is a sign that you are not paying attention.

I don't consider myself a cynic. I think of myself as a skeptic and a realist.

A lot of times naysayers are just people that have not taken the time yet.

I am not an idiot, and I'm not a Pollyanna sort of kumbaya type.

I've encountered a lot of people who sound like critics but very few who have substantive criticisms. There is a lot of skepticism, but it seems to be more a matter of inertia than it is of people having some real reason for thinking something else.

I understand the concept of optimism. But I think with me what you get is a lack of cynicism.

Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism.

Well, I'm not sure what pop psychology is, but I don't like it.

Intellectuals are too sentimental for me.

Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.

The more cynical you become, the better off you'll be.

I consider myself to be a pretty good judge of people... that's why I don't like any of them.

I just feel I'm on a different page from the reviewers, so I've learned not to care about them too much.

Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.

I think there's an enormous value to being negative. The world we live in today, negativity is not permitted.

Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.

We have become so cynical that we are always challenging each other’s motives and in very few instances do we engage in an intelligent argument in the substance of the argument.

To think critically is always to be hostile.