Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.

On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we're going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future.

While there's life, there's hope.

Love, we say, is life but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

Depression can seem worse than terminal cancer, because most cancer patients feel loved and they have hope and self-esteem.