I know my country has not perfected itself. At times we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.
I've made a promise to myself to be a 100% healthy person if nothing else.
I can promise you that women working together - linked informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.
Our promise to our children should be this: if you do well in school we will pay for you to obtain a college degree.
I've been looking at some video clips on YouTube of President Obama - then candidate Obama - going through Iowa making promises. The gap between his promises and his performance is the largest I've seen well since the Kardashian wedding and the promise of 'til death do we part.
Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness to knowledge we make promise only; pain we obey.
Canadians know that the promise of a recession didn't happen because of anything we did here. If you look at all the causes of the recession problems in mortgage markets the problems in the banking sector the problems in government finance in countries like Greece none of those problems were in present Canada.