I hope I live long enough to see every hungry school child in the world being fed under the so-called McGovern-Dole program.

We hope the world will act in the spirit of enlightened self-interest.

Put your blog out into the world and hope that your talent will speak for itself.

The only people who live in a post-black world are four people who live in a little white house on Pennsylvania Avenue. The idea that America is post-racial or post-black because a man I admire Barack Obama is president of the United States is a joke. And I hope no one will even wonder about this crazy fiction again.

Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning. You either have it or you don't regardless of the state of the world that surrounds you.

We've got the wind at our back right now. Americans are waking up to the realities of their previous choices. We must keep America moving back to preeminence because our values and conservative ideas are the world's greatest hope.

When I think about the world I would like to leave to my daughter and the grandchildren I hope to have it is a world that moves away from unequal unstable unsustainable interdependence to integrated communities - locally nationally and globally - that share the characteristics of all successful communities.

My hope is that we continue to nurture the places that we love but that we also look outside our immediate worlds.

But since her earliest days America has inspired people from all over the world. Inspired them with the hope that one day their own countries would be one like this one.

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love something to do and something to hope for.

My hope is that gays will be running the world because then there would be no war. Just a greater emphasis on military apparel.

But then there are magical beautiful things in the world. There's incredible acts of kindness and bravery and in the most unlikely places and it gives you hope.

Hundreds of thousands of American servicemen and women are deployed across the world in the war on terror. By bringing hope to the oppressed and delivering justice to the violent they are making America more secure.

I know the world is filled with troubles and many injustices. But reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. I think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn't write anything without hope in it.

When I was young my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there.

Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see the time when that number of nuclear weapons is down to zero and the world is a much better place.

The happy Union of these States is a wonder their Constitution a miracle their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.