"I always have hope. Don't you remember my campaign? [laughter] Even after being here for two and a half years, I continue to have hope. You know why I have hope? It's because of the American people."
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The miserable have no other medicine,
But only Hope:
I've hope to live, and am prepar'd to die.
-- Claudio, William Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, Act III, Scene I