I’m reasonably optimistic about the future, especially the future of the United States – for the century, at least.

I think one of the great things about the United States has been our ability to maintain a distinction between our military and domestic law enforcement.

I was a peripheral visionary. I could see the future, but only way off to the side.

Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.

It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence.

My opinion is it’s a bridge too far to go to fully autonomous cars.

When I arrived in Laos and found young Americans living there, out of free choice, I was surprised. After only a week, I began to have a sense of the appeal of the country and its people – along with despair about its future.

I always thought we had an environmental problem, but I hadn’t realized how urgent it was. James Lovelock writes that by the end of this century there will be one billion people left.

Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.

Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.

The future is called ‚perhaps‘, which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

It is natural to want to have a future.

The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers.

There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. We urgently need to develop direct connections to the brain so that computers can add to human intelligence rather than be in opposition.

As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what’s happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don’t seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

Say ‚Toronto‘ or ‚Ontario,‘ and the immediate thought associations are with a somewhat blander version of North America: a United States with a welfare regime and a more polite street etiquette, and the additionally reassuring visage of Queen Elizabeth on the currency.

I never think of the future – it comes soon enough.

There’s a War Crimes Act in the United States passed by a Republican Congress in 1996, which says that grave breaches of the Geneva Convention are subject to the death penalty. And that doesn’t mean the soldier that committed them – that means the commanders.

I’m the president of the United States. I’m not the emperor of the United States.

I don’t have freedom in the United States to go into a public school and preach the Gospel, nor is a student free in a public school to pray, or a teacher free to read the Bible publicly to the students. At the same time, we have a great degree of freedom for which I am grateful.

If you’re low-income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than you do of getting a four-year degree. And that doesn’t seem entirely fair.

One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

On one of my last days at school, the headmaster said I would either end up in prison or become a millionaire. That was quite a startling prediction, but in some respects, he was right on both counts!

This President is going to lead us out of this recovery.

These are not dark days: these are great days – the greatest days our country has ever lived.

I do not like broccoli. And I haven’t liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I’m President of the United States and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli.

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.

You practice mindfulness, on the one hand, to be calm and peaceful. On the other hand, as you practice mindfulness and live a life of peace, you inspire hope for a future of peace.

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity… The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

I don’t know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Over the last 15 months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.

The United States has to move very fast to even stand still.

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.

I’m going to try to unite all Americans.

Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant – the digitalis of failure.

The Lord can give, and the Lord can take away. I might be herding sheep next year.

I’m here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don’t follow what you’ve been told you’re supposed to do.

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

China is a great manufacturing center, but it’s actually mostly an assembly plant. So it assembles parts and components, high technology that comes from the surrounding industrial – more advanced industrial centers – Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore, the United States, Europe – and it basically assembles them.

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.

One of the great strengths of the United States is… we have a very large Christian population – we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

I do know this… I seem to reach a lot of previously unchurched people. So many people have told me they never went to church until they heard our message of hope that God is a good God who desires to bless those who are faithful and obedient to Him through Jesus Christ.

I feel really blessed when people start comparing me with Sachin, but I keep myself focused on my performance and not on such comparisons. I literally worship him, so I don’t see too much in this comparison. No cricketer has been able to score one hundred centuries like Sachin.

A man’s delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.

In order for the United States to do the right things for the long term, it appears to be helpful for us to have the prospect of humiliation. Sputnik helped us fund good science – really good science: the semiconductor came out of it.

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.

Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race.

If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn’t be here. I guarantee you that.

When I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they’re not, then I try to set about trying to make them as good as I can ‚cause I know I’m gonna have to live that day anyway. So why not try to make the most of it if you can? Some days, they pan out a little better than others, but you still gotta always just try.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

I can’t imagine what this place would be – I can’t imagine what the country would be – with Donald Trump as our president.