All the energy, all the optimism, all the ideas were coming from the people around Tony Blair and Gordon Brown".
That's why everything here sounds like it's just turned nasty, as if all the optimism has curdled and soured.
There, in his colorful home movie, all the optimism, faith and naivete of postwar America seemed to disappear in a moment.
Click here to view video All the optimism of the early years of Thatcher's premiership can be found in this unashamedly patriotic, and undeniably stirring, epic.
QPR will have been numbed by this loss, all the optimism generated by an upturn in away form and 88 minutes of industry and aggression having been undone at the last.
But, for all the optimism of that summer, it was the year when dance battened down the hatches against a perfect storm of cuts: to arts council funding, local authority grants and regional development agencies.
But while some companies may prove to be great successes, there is no way that the economy will produce enough profits to justify all the optimism now being shown.
This can help cut congestion, raise fuel efficiency, and help traffic to steer clear of crashes and other problems.However, for all the optimism at the ITS conference, there are concerns that the technology could be hacked by criminals, as have other smart devices, such as fridges and toasters.
For Everton, it was a chilling reality check; a scoreline which punctures the soaring self-belief which last autumn's win at Old Trafford sent through their ranks and one from which, for all the optimism their manager Roberto Martinez radiates, you wonder whether they really can maintain a tilt at Champions League football.
8.50am GMT Ostwald: no real momentum yet Marc Ostwald of Monument Securities is cautious about today's data, saying: For all the optimism that has been expressed about the Eurozone (notwithstanding the disinflation chatter), forecasts for Q4 GDP hardly paint a picture that suggests any real momentum.
Our research shows that u-boomers share all the optimism and expectations of their wealthier counterparts.
