A Quote by Barbara Boxer

You have to be an optimist to be in politics.

Barbara Boxer

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Barbara Boxer
American - Politician
Born: November 11, 1940

A lot of people have asked me whether I am a cynic or take a cynical view of politics and are often surprised when I say that I consider myself an optimist, but an optimist dressed in the robes of a realist.

Beau Willimon

I am a stubborn optimist: I was born an optimist and will remain an optimist.

Kofi Annan

An optimist is neither naive, nor blind to the facts, nor in denial of grim reality. An optimist believes in the optimal usage of all options available, no matter how limited. As such, an optimist always sees the big picture. How else to keep track of all that’s out there? An optimist is simply a proactive realist.

Vera Nazarian

I'm an optimist. You can't be an entrepreneur if you're not essentially an optimist, so I'm an optimist by nature.

John Sculley

But I am an optimist about Britain; and the difference between an optimist and a pessimist is not that the optimist believes the world is wonderful and the pessimist believes it's beset by challenges; the difference is the pessimist believes we will be defeated by them; the optimist thinks the challenges can be overcome.

Tony Blair

I am an optimist. If I ever quit being an optimist, I guess I'll become a Republican.

Ray Farabee

It may not seem that way, but I am an absolute optimist, an unrepentant optimist.

Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

I'm a serious optimist. I come from a country where you have little to be hopeful for, and so you have to always be an optimist.

Leymah Gbowee

You have to be an optimist, right? You have to be critical, then you have to be an optimist. Or else you're really stupid.

Ted Danson

Life inflicts the same setbacks and tragedies on the optimist as on the pessimist, but the optimist weathers them better.

Martin Seligman

I'm still a hard-edged reporter, but I'm an optimist. I'm a perpetual optimist.

Joel Benenson

People tell me, "You're such an optimist". Am I an optimist? An optimist says the glass is half full. A pessimist says the glass is half empty. A survivalist is practical. He says, "Call it what you want, but just fill the glass." I believe in filling the glass.

Louis Zamperini

When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative; an optimist or a pessimist. I choose to be an optimist. It's all a matter of perspective.

Harvey Mackay

The politics of personal destruction, the politics of division, the politics of fear, it's all there. It helps you to define the politics of moderation - the politics of democratic respect, the politics of hope - more clearly.

Michael Ignatieff

I'm an optimist, but I'm an optimist who takes his raincoat.

Harold Wilson

I think of myself as a doom person. I'm a worrier. But I like the idea of being an optimist. Maybe I'm the kind of optimist who deep down knows it's not going to work.

Owen Wilson

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