I am not a pessimist.

Don't be a pessimist.

Well, I'm not an optimist, neither am I a pessimist.

Several previous speakers have made a pessimistic diagnosis of the situation.

Secondly, my delegation remains somewhat pessimistic with regard to the two Tribunals accomplishing their tasks by 2010.

That working paper gave a pessimistic assessment of the economic viability of seabed mining which was attributed to the state of the metal markets.

And it didn't matter if you're an extreme optimist, a mild optimist or slightly pessimistic, everyone's left inferior frontal gyrus was functioning perfectly well, whether you're Barack Obama or Woody Allen.

To ask whether that would not go too far was neither cowardice nor pessimism.

'Oh Thomas Malthus, he was so pessamistic, he was obviously wrong, look at what's happened, we have so much food on this planet right now, we've gone through multiple agricultural revolutions'

But it's not saying that Thomas Malthus was wrong, it's just saying that maybe he was just a little bit, er, he was a little bit pessimistic in when that limit will be reached.

If we do not have coordination and I am not being pessimistic I am being realistic this increasingly complex problem will result in an increasing number of victims.