Cynthia P. Schneider Quotes

During his brilliant campaign, President Obama wove a powerful narrative about the American we all hope for. And that hope was grounded in a very powerful reality: President Obama's own inspiring life story.

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

While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

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.

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

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

That someone like Obama could be elected president of the United States - with its unrivaled power and prestige - has begun to restore the country's and the world's faith in America as the land of opportunity.

The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.

Visions describe what best should be, could be - if and when mankind has the will to make them real.

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.

Thanking you once more, I want to wish you the best of luck for your future life and to conclude by saying to you: Dream your dreams and may they come true!

Hope is the most exciting thing there is in life.

Every day I am inspired by what's possible.

Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.

There is in most Americans some spark of idealism, which can be fanned into a flame. It takes sometimes a divining rod to find what it is; but when found, and that means often, when disclosed to the owners, the results are often extraordinary.

The right to hope is the most powerful human motivation.

People call up just to ask me to thank the President, sometimes for something as intangible as the fact that he has given them back their courage.

If you can find ways to give people hope that they can achieve something or make a difference, then there's an opportunity for something good to happen.

Across our small globe, dawn sweeps each morning, lighting cities and cottages, barrios and villages. Whoever and wherever you may be, you can step out into that morning sunrise and know, from our American example, that life does not have to be the way it is for you.

At a pivotal time in my life, Barack Obama gave me hope that a boy who grew up like me could still achieve the most important of my dreams. For that, I'll miss him and the example he set.

I remember seeing the first episode of '24' when I was 13, and to be that face for a 13-year-old and open up that possibility, it shows you the world isn't on fire. There's possibility there.

The big thing for me is just continuing to be a beacon of hope. And showing people that nothing is impossible.

Everything is possible in this life.

My job is to allow people to dream. Make the impossible seem possible.

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