“Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.”– Lewis Mumford Related Quotes “One of the matters that must be addressed is that Rwanda and Uganda have to leave the Democratic Republic of the Congo. We’re also supporting processes to ensure that the political dialogue among the Congolese themselves takes place so that the people there can decide their future.”– Thabo Mbeki “America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.”– Frederick Douglass “And that’s how we build the economy of the future. An economy with more jobs and less debt, we root it in fairness. We grow it with opportunity. And we build it together.”– Elizabeth Warren