“I wish Godspeed to the man who was my former opponent and will be my president. And I call on all Americans, as I have often in this campaign, to not despair of our present difficulties, but to believe, always, in the promise and greatness of America, because nothing is inevitable here.”
2000s, 2008, Concession speech (2008)
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Remarks at his installation as Attorney General.

2000s, Speech at the Republican National Convention (31 August 2004)

2010s, 2016, July, 2016 Republican National Convention (21 July 2016)

Source: 2000s, 2002, Worth the Fighting For (2002), p. 373

Barack Obama. Quoted in The Audacity of Hope - Page 211 - by Barack Obama.

Post-Presidency, DNC address (2004)
Context: I am not discouraged. I really am not. I do not despair for our country. I never do. I believe tonight, as I always have, that the essential decency and compassion and common sense of the American people will prevail.
And so I say to you and to others around the world, whether they wish us well or ill: Do not underestimate us Americans.

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 366.

Quoted in the Burbank Leader http://www.burbankleader.com/entertainment/tn-blr-masielalusha-20101027,0,7134384.story/