Black people cannot look to government to solve their problems.
There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.
Oppositions are not there to get legislation through. Oppositions are there to hold the government to account.
The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.
Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.
We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.
Government is never so noble as when it is addressing wrongs.
Micro managing anything is not a great role for government.
Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.
I may err in judgment, but I hope not in intention.
Hope fills the holes of my frustration in my heart.
I hope I have important things to say.
Insecurity and resignation mingle with the hope for a better order.
Hope never abandons you, you abandon it.
The hope, and not the fact, of advancement, is the spur to industry.
The Middle East is hopeful. There's hope there.
I hope popchips will be the Vitaminwater of the snack aisle.
Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.
I still believe in a place called Hope.
But my happiness in this world - my level of peace - is never going to be dictated by acting.
Happiness: a way station between too little and too much.