Jagmeet Singh Quotes

Many people remember that spirit that President Kennedy summoned forth. Many people look to me as somebody who embodies that sense of possibility.

If people come out of an election and everyone’s despairing, everyone’s in a collective civic funk, we don’t get anything done. Simply reminding people of how bad things are and what you lost, nobody’s moved by that. People are moved by the sense of possiblity, a sense of hope.

It gives one hope, this great strength of Africa.

Why was Barack Obama attractive to people in 2008? If you think about Barack Obama, there's all this anxiety about society, just kind of wracked by centripetal forces - the idea that the center's not holding, no one can talk to each other, the idea of a political system that's broken.

We are not doing celebrity, personality, abusive politics - we are doing ideas. This is about hope.

I'm so, so full of joy that America elected Obama. He didn't win because he was black - people voted for him because he had a plan and because he talked sense and because you believed him.

Our task is to help replace ... despair with opportunity.

I am full of a sense of promise, like I often have: the feeling of always being at the beginning.

I don't know if you can hear me, but I have heard you. I heard your willingness to change. Your force, your hope... and I want to tell you how grateful I am. Thank you, thank you, thank you, people of France.

Always end your book with Nelson Mandela saying something about rainbows or renaissances. Because you care.

I think for a lot of people, when you're starting something new, everyone is so excited about it.

There's so much power in seeing the possibility of change.

It's possible to watch 'Gone Girl' and feel that you have seen something terribly bleak. But it's also possible to receive it as good news. Any powerful articulation of the need for change is also a testimony to the possibility of change.

Nothing ever seems impossible in spring, you know.

Today a new sun rises for me; everything lives, everything is animated, everything seems to speak to me of my passion, everything invites me to cherish it.

A dream is the bearer of a new possibility, the enlarged horizon, the great hope.

The future of the world belongs to the youth of the world, and it is from the youth and not from the old that the fire of life will warm and enlighten the world. It is your privilege to breathe the breath of life into the dry bones of many around you.

A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.

Let us not curse the darkness. Let us kindle little lights.

We are all dreamers creating the next world, the next beautiful world for ourselves and for our children.

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.

The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes.

What I love best in life is new starts.

As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it.