National Mood Quotes

I think people in Great Britain are a bit jaded sometimes.

For style and for creating a mood of optimism and hope - Kennedy on that count is as effective as any president the country has had in its history.

I think the majority of the British people are still sanguine about the need for war.

It's really an optimistic show. I think most of the people in this country are optimistic, too.

People are moping around and I think campaigns can be about lifting the spirits of the American people.

When the shadow of the Presidential and Congressional election is lifted we shall, I hope be in a better temper to legislate.

One good way of measuring the mood in Israel is just how alert or relaxed the guards at every restaurant entrance appear to be.

David Cameron's message of change, optimism and hope is in tune with what Britain wants today

I think all Americans should be hopeful, and try to be optimistic.

I think that the reality is, is that there's a shift in the mood in the USA that's very anti-Washington.

To count as transformative, a president needs to synthesize the moment and mood of the country.

The sky is always falling or the sky is always bright. In some ways, this is really morning in America and we don't see it. People are living longer, the economy is doing pretty well. On the other hand, there are some ways of thinking in the current situation that make it look not so good, including our Star Wars prequels - like legislature, meaning they're talking a lot, not doing a lot.

Sometime between when the Summer of Love ended and the Summer of Sam began, America became a nation of cynics about love.

Present and future conditions will determine the American public’s attitude on this war.

Canadians are tired of being cynical.

I think the American public has gone from really almost white-hot anger in 2010 to an anxiety knowing their government needs to work.

The American people are both anxious for change. We're in a time of flux.

I think if you look at almost every year under every president over the last, I don't know, 20, 30 years, you're going to be hard-pressed to find a year in which the majority of Americans thought we were on the right track.

One of my theories about why we've been cranky is Australians have been forced to focus on politics or party politics a little bit more than they normally would.

America may be in a dour condition, but it is not going to elect a dour president.

President Obama came to office with a strong belief that America had overreached, that we had become too involved. It matched the national mood, and indeed, there was some evidence that it was true.

Idealism that makes no distinction between areas where our national interest lies and those from which it is remote does no good for America. The weariness of the post-Versailles, post-Korea, post-Vietnam eras is never far from the national mood.

The academy which boasts of 6,000 to 8,000 voting members are most likely to get swayed by the national mood in the US. There is a point person for every movie at the Oscars, who is supposed to promote the film and is trusted by the panel. By keeping all these in mind, Tamil cinema making its way to the final list is quite ambitious.

Here's the positive scenario: that something has been going wrong in American society. You see it in wage growth, opioid abuse, many other social indicators, as you know. Sometimes it's better to get the bad reaction to that over with quickly while your civil society still is strong and you can react and respond and protest, and you know, four or eight years from now, make another decision, and maybe it's better to have that happen in 2017 than 20 years later when some of our problems are worse and our national mood is worse.

The two parties represent two opposite moods of the English mind, which may be trusted, unless past experience is wholly useless, to succeed each other from time to time. Neither of them, neither the love of organic changes nor the dislike of it, can be described as normal to a nation. In every nation, they have succeeded each other at varying intervals during the whole of the period which separates its birth from its decay. Each finds in the circumstances and constitution of individuals a regular support which never deserts it. Among men, the old, the phlegmatic, the sober-minded, among classes, those who have more to lose than to gain by change, furnish the natural Conservatives. The young, the envious, the restless, the dreaming, those whose condition cannot easily be made worse, will be rerum novarum cupidi. But the two camps together will not nearly include the nation: for the vast mass of every nation is unpolitical.