The word you sometimes get is 'deluded,' they use, but for me, I've always been very positive.

We had a military and political leadership at that period which was genuinely deluded.

Fear not, the people may be deluded for a moment, but cannot be corrupted.

What disturbs and depresses young people is the hunt for happiness on the firm assumption that it must be met with in life. From this arises constantly deluded hope and so also dissatisfaction. Deceptive images of a vague happiness hover before us in our dreams, and we search in vain for their original. Much would have been gained if, through timely advice and instruction, young people could have had eradicated from their minds the erroneous notion that the world has a great deal to offer them.

Falling in love is very real, but I used to shake my head when people talked about soul mates, poor deluded individuals grasping at some supernatural ideal not intended for mortals but sounded pretty in a poetry book. Then, we met, and everything changed, the cynic has become the converted, the sceptic, an ardent zealot.

We had a military and political leadership at that period which was genuinely deluded.

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Fear not the people may be deluded for a moment but cannot be corrupted.

Maybe that first gigantic deficit the Reaganites piled up was an accident just a combination of deluded 'supply side' tax cuts and a huge bag of good stuff for the Pentagon. But pretty quickly conservatives discovered that deficits when done correctly did something really cool: deficits defunded the Left.