Diane Black Quotes

Most senators are just going to work and trying to do a job.

In politics, you also have to be cautiously optimistic.

A conservative government survives essentially by dampening expectations and subduing hopes. Conservatism is basically pessimistic, reformism is basically optimistic.

Confidence in the future -- Hope -- gives power to individuals and communities. It is that which enables the poor man to become rich, and the character of all legislative action is to be judged by its greater or lesser tendency to produce this effect.

We shouldn't have to pass a bill to find out what's in it.

It's not such a bad thing to bring some naive optimism to Washington.

As a newcomer to politics, I knew in my bones that we as a country were better than what we see coming out of Washington. And we are.

The Senate is where the issues are, and most people there are career politicians.

I love working the legislative process.

there's no harm in hoping for the best as long as you're prepared for the worst.

I am optimistic about the future. Brethren, for our part, we must remain steadfast in hope, work with all our strength, and trust in God.

You see, in Washington they have these bodies, Senate and the House of Representatives. That is for the convenience of the visitors. If there is nothing funny happening in one, there is sure to be in the other, and in case one body passes a good bill, why, the other can see it in time and kill it.

It'll be great. Of course I was disappointed last year. But . . I'll get my revenge.

I want to show you an optimistic sign that things are beginning to turn around.

All people have is hope. That's what brings the next day and whatever that day may bring... A hope grounded in the real world of living, friendship, work, family...

When I got to the Senate, one of the things that most bothered me is this lack of urgency about the major issues.

I sincerely believe that everything - everything - is grace, and you have to stick around long enough to see it through. I'm a very optimistic person.

Anticipation and Hope are born twins.

Isn't hope an incredible, a wonderfully demented thing?

Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, of sickness, or captivity, would, without this comfort, be insupportable; nor does it appear that the happiest lot of terrestrial existence can set us above the want of this general blessing; or that life, when the gifts of nature and of fortune are accumulated upon it, would not still be wretched, were it not elevated and delighted by the expectation of some new possession, of some enjoyment yet behind, by which the wish shall at last be satisfied, and the heart filled up to its utmost extent.

On one hand, I'm an optimistic pessimist. On the other, I'm a pessimistic optimist. But while there's life, there's still hope, and I wouldn't be doing what I'm doing if I didn't think there was still hope.

Never sell tomorrow short. There's plenty to get excited about. Be filled with expectation, hope and confidence. Believe something good is going to happen - and it usually will.

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope. No merchant or tradesman would set himself to work if he did not hope to reap benefit thereby.

I guess the optimistic thing is that those people in Congress who are climate deniers, I think their time has run out.

Hope is desire and expectation rolled into one.