Up against the corporate government, voters find themselves asked to choose between look-alike candidates from two parties vying to see who takes the marching orders from their campaign paymasters and their future employers. The money of vested interest nullifies genuine voter choice and trust.

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

President Obama believes in a country where we invest in education, in roads and bridges, in science, and in the future so we can create new opportunities so the next kid can make it big and the kid afer that and the kid after that, that's what President Obama believes.

I'm convinced that we can shape a different future for this country as it relates to mental health and as it relates to suicide.

I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.

The more we shelter children from every disappointment, the more devastating future disappointments will be.

This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.

The dark shadow we seem to see in the distance is not really a mountain ahead, but the shadow of the mountain behind - a shadow from the past thrown forward into our future. It is a dark sludge of historical sectarianism. We can leave it behind us if we wish.

We know that when people are safe in their homes, they are free to pursue their dream for a brighter economic future for themselves and their families.

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.