I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat.

I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat.

An optimist is someone who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery.

A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.

All these financiers, all the little gnomes in Zurich.

Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whatever terms are offered us? No.