American Dream Quotes

As time goes on we get closer to that American Dream of there being a pie cut up and shared. Usually greed and selfishness prevent that and there is always one bad apple in every barrel.
Rick Danko

Time, Bad, Greed

For centuries, New York has served as the gateway for millions of people from all over the world in search of the American dream. It only makes sense that it would now serve as a gateway for the world's greatest athletes.
Hillary Clinton

Greatest, Sense, Dream

Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.
Douglas MacArthur

Live, Long, Country

The Hispanic community understands the American Dream and have not forgotten what they were promised - that in the U.S., a free market system, allows us all to succeed economically, achieve stability and security for your family and leave your children better off than yourselves.
Marco Rubio

Family, Children, Free

I am living proof that the American dream still exists. It is still alive and well. There is only one trick, you have to be willing to roll up your sleeves and work very, very hard.
Paula Deen

Work, Hard, Living

Americans have so far put up with inequality because they felt they could change their status. They didn't mind others being rich, as long as they had a path to move up as well. The American Dream is all about social mobility in a sense - the idea that anyone can make it.
Fareed Zakaria

Change, Mind, Long

If proud Americans can be who they are and boldly stand at the altar with who they love then surely, surely we can give everyone in this country a fair chance at that great American Dream.
Michelle Obama

Love, Great, Give

What is the American dream? The American dream is one big tent. One big tent. And on that big tent you have four basic promises: equal protection under the law, equal opportunity, equal access, and fair share.
Jesse Jackson

Law, Big, Dream

I really have the American dream licked.
Ted Nugent

Dream, American, Licked

I believe keeping our promises should be our highest priority and that means saving Social Security and Medicare while preserving the American dream for our children and grandchildren.
Tom Coburn

Children, Dream, American

I lived the true American dream, because I was able to pursue what I set as my goals at a very young age.
Mario Andretti

Age, True, Young

That's what we do in this country. That's the American Dream. That's freedom, and I'll take it any day over the supervision and sanctimony of the central planners.
Paul Ryan

Freedom, Country, Dream

We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.
Max Beerbohm

Dreams, Start, Dream

I stand before you today as a disciplined conservative Texan, a committed Republican and a proud American, united with you to restoring our nation and revive the American dream.
Rick Perry

Today, Before, Proud

High school dropouts are forfeiting their opportunity to pursue the American Dream.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

School, Dream, American

I think the American Dream says that anything can happen if you work hard enough at it and are persistent, and have some ability. The sky is the limit to what you can build, and what can happen to you and your family.
Sanford I. Weill

Work, Family, Hard

When we make college more affordable, we make the American dream more achievable.
William J. Clinton

Dream, American, College

To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom.
Maya Lin

Freedom, Dream, American

The American dream is about freedom.
Nancy Pelosi

Freedom, Dream, American

What I have said to people is that I've lived the American dream, because I have.
Carly Fiorina

Said, Dream, American

Insisting that we must tax and take and demonize those who have already achieved the American Dream. That may turn out to be a good re-election strategy for President Obama, but is a demoralizing message for America.
Chris Christie

Good, May, America

Democrats believe in reigniting the American dream by removing barriers to success and building ladders of opportunity for all, so everyone can succeed.
Nancy Pelosi

Success, Dream, Everyone

People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.
Florence King

Age, Busy, Human

Everybody in America started to define themselves by all these things they had around them. And all of a sudden it came tumbling down. So the old American dream has died, and that is a good thing.
Suze Orman

Good, Down, America

My great-grandfather, like many, came to this country in search of the American dream.
Rand Paul

Country, Dream, American

If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.
Rand Paul

Freedom, Die, Dream

This is the city of dreamers and time and again it's the place where the greatest dream of all, the American dream, has been tested and has triumphed.
Michael Bloomberg

Time, Greatest, Place

If you want a future of shared prosperity, where the middle class is growing and poverty is declining, where the American Dream is alive and well, and where the United States remains the leading force for peace and prosperity in a highly competitive world, you should vote for Barack Obama.
William J. Clinton

Peace, Future, Vote

I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream.
Bruce Springsteen

Life, Reality, Between

The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.
J. G. Ballard

Dreams, Car, Dream

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