Mary Frances Berry Quotes

When Barack Obama got elected, I remember being in Harlem specifically. I remember watching that whole part of town just swell. People walked the streets, but it wasn't a riot - it wasn't mayhem. It was a unified feeling of euphoria.

I don't think that a vote for Barack Obama is a symbolic thing. I think it's much more than that. It's not just a black man. It's not just a feel-good vote. It's the idea of electing someone who really does want to make a difference.

As an American people, what is greatest about our history are the many times we have led this world away from hate, towards hope.

I'm so, so full of joy that America elected Obama.

We Democrats still have a dream. We still believe in this nation's future.

I was like everyone else when Obama was elected - optimistic.

We are not doing celebrity, personality, abusive politics - we are doing ideas. This is about hope.

Obama provides hope. Whether he does anything, the hope that he provides for a nation and outside of America is enough. Just being who he is. You're the first black president. If he speaks on any issue or anything, he should be left alone.

We have to inspire people and give them a sense of hope. We need to bring people along, not ridicule and tear them down.

Our American experiment deserves an advocate, and the American people respond best to inspiration, not fear-mongering.

President Obama became our first African American president, and for me, it is the stuff of which dreams are made.

When people were selling the politics of fear and division and destruction, we were talking about hope. We were talking about the politics of joy.

We just fundamentally forgot that people want to vote for something positive. They want to be shown what the good life for them personally looks like.

I think there are certain events that would be an amazing torch for a turn in how the world is getting on, and the Ryder Cup would be one of them that is like a shining light at the end of the tunnel.

Gene Roddenberry is one of the greatest guys who ever lived because he gave us hope that the future might be bright and we could accept one another for whoever we were, even if we were alien. That's an amazing message, don't you think?

I've had enough of the bleak headlines and divisive politics, dark TV dramas and hate-filled social media. I'm embracing a new movement with a slightly ridiculous name and a single mission, to make the world a better place. It's called 'hopepunk'.

Be there for Barack Obama, because our country needs him.

The politics of hope is harder to spread than the politics of hate.

In 2008, I was inspired by President Obama's vision for America and all the promises that he laid out for our country.

The Republican Party has to be the party of optimism and giving our children a better starting point. We have to make sure we're broader, more inclusive, and reaching out to every community.

I momentarily but genuinely believed that Barack Obama was the answer not only to our nation's depressing politics but to the question of our racial enlightenment.

I'm very optimistic about the future, because... Okay, with Audra McDonald, even just on Broadway, they cast her in shows that are usually not played by African-American women, so she's very inspiring to me just because of that, you know what I mean?

I believe in President Obama.

We want to inspire people to work together, giving them hope that we can do something even if we cannot do everything.

To all the countries of the former Soviet Union: look at us, everything is possible.