I'm an optimist in my heart - I'm a hopeless pollyanna just like my mother - but a pessimist in my head. I think that's the dialectic we all need to be in. Bill Ayers More Quotes by Bill Ayers More Quotes From Bill Ayers There was a sense of palpable relief that George [W.] Bush was leaving and that the Republicans had slipped back and that was a wonderful feeling. Bill Ayers relief leaving feelings