Jose Maria Aznar Quotes

If we are lucky, and George W. Bush is right, we are about to witness the War of the Happy Iraqis.

People are optimistic about the future.

The best part is still ahead of me - I haven't experienced my 'good old days' yet.

I have optimism for the future. You have to.

And ye, who have met with Adversity's blast, And been bow'd to the earth by its fury; To whom the Twelve Months, that have recently pass'd Were as harsh as a prejudiced jury - Still, fill to the Future! and join in our chime, The regrets of remembrance to cozen, And having obtained a New Trial of Time, Shout in hopes of a kindlier dozen.

The modern technological world appears overwhelming to many people. It drives some to pessimism and despair. It makes others doubt the future of mankind unless we retreat to simpler lives and even to the ways of our ancestors. What these people fail to realize is that we cannot go back to those ways and those days. Furthermore, for all our difficulties, life today is far better for more people and the possibilities for the future can be brighter than ever if we develop not only new knowledge, but a greater faith and confidence in the human mind and spirit.

The world is safer without Saddam [Hussein]. Certainly the people of Iraq are better without Saddam.

If people were super-optimistic about technology there would be no reason to be pessimistic about the future.

It is the US government's desire for the Iraqi people to lead themselves, not for any outside power to be the leadership for Iraq in the future. There may be some transition period where the international community would have to help the Iraqi people put in place a representative government. But that is the goal, not for the United States, or any other nation, for that matter, who might be in such a coalition, if one is formed, to serve as the leader of the Iraqi nation.

If we take people only as they are, then we make them worse; if we treat them as if they were what they should be, then we bring them to where they can be brought.

I just love life. I mean, you know, I love every second of it. I love people.

Man is vile, I know, but people are wonderful.

Oh! you are a great deal too apt, you know, to like people in general. You never see fault in any body. All the world are good and agreeable in your eyes. I never heard you speak ill of a human being in my life." "I would wish not to be hasty in censuring any one; but I always speak what I think.

I have faith in all mankind. Well,not faith really, more like hopeful suspicion. And not "all" but 5 people. Mankind meaning computers.

People exaggerate their own skills. they are optimistic about their prospects and overconfident about their guesses, including which managers to pick.

With a little luck that epoch may arrive. I am on the side of those who think that things will go better when the world has changed.

I'm always on the lookout for something good about people. Often months go by.

I never thought I was finished when people said I was finished, or any of that stuff. I always had this undying belief that even if I was in a wheelchair and I could only move my finger, somehow I would become the guy who does the amazing thing with his finger.

You encourage people by seeing the good in them.

People have hope because they cannot see Death standing behind them.

Take it upon yourself where you live to make people around you joyful and full of hope.

For the first time the people of Iraq are united. Today on CNN I saw a Kurd, a Shiite and a member of the Republican Guard coming together to cart off a big screen TV.

People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.

Donald Trump believes in America, he believes in its people. He believes in its promise, is very liberating and you see that when you're with him privately, you see it publicly.

I was in Iraq, Afghanistan, Djibouti, Bahrain. The first year I went pretty much by myself. Then I went with General [Richard] Myers, head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The shows and audiences were amazing. You'll never get a better group of people.