We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America.
Barbara Jordan

We as a people, as a state, and as a community, have too much promise, too much potential, and too much at stake to go any other way than forward. We are too strong in our hearts, too innovative in our minds, and too firm in our beliefs to retreat from our goals.
Bill Richardson

We can continue our progress as a Nation toward the promise that all people are created equal and that our Nation will treat every person in that spirit.
Bobby Scott

We do very little re-writing in the office. We often take on people who show great promise and who we hope will develop into somebody important and someone good.
James Laughlin

We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion.
Zelda Fitzgerald

We have a positive vision of the future founded on the belief that the gap between the promise and reality of America can one day be finally closed. We believe that.
Barbara Jordan

We have the promise of God's being our God, and of the blessing by Christ for ourselves, as we are Abraham's seed, yet take the whole promise collectively made to him and us.
Thomas Goodwin

We need to take steps to strengthen and mend Social Security so that its promise of a secure retirement is just as real for seniors in the future as it is today.
Herb Kohl

We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We promised new benefits to seniors like preventive screening and diabetes testing. We kept that promise.
Mike Rogers

We want to make sure that Social Security is fixed for those people who have had that promise and there's something in the future for our younger workers. And we're not about to do a welfare program.
Dennis Hastert

We were not fathers also to convey the promise, as Abraham was; nor although the promise, as collectively taken, had belonged to us, as to Abraham it did.
Thomas Goodwin

We'll be back. I promise you that.
Samuel West

What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade.
Gertrude Jekyll

What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those?
Gilbert Highet

What the people want is very simple - they want an America as good as its promise.
Barbara Jordan

What unites Oklahomans today is what has always united us: Our unshakable faith. Our love of family and compassion for others. The unlimited promise of a hopeful future.
Brad Henry

When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?
Chuck Palahniuk

When the great promise of the Spirit was fulfilled on the day of Pentecost, it was fulfilled not in reference to the apostles only.
Charles Hodge