The American Dream Quotes

People say I'm America's worst nightmare. I say I'm the American dream.

I've not only pursued the American dream, I've achieved it. I suppose we could say the last few years, I've also achieved the American nightmare.

Success is the American Dream. And that success is not something to be ashamed of, or to demonize.

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

Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.

The American dream is a crock. Stop wanting everything. Everyone should wear jeans and have three T-shirts, eat rice and beans.

There are those, I know, who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American 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.

As our federal government has grown too large and too powerful, the real loss has been the freedom of people to govern their own lives and participate fully in the American dream.

Only in America can someone start with nothing and achieve the American Dream. That's the greatness of this country.

Everybody has dreams. You are living the American dream, what's wrong with pushing to secure it for everyone?

The most important thing of all is my parents were able to leave all four of their children better off than themselves. That story has a name, it's called the American dream.

The death tax punishes the American dream - making it virtually impossible for the average American family to build wealth across generations.

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.

The American Dream is a term that is often used but also often misunderstood. It isn't really about becoming rich or famous. It is about things much simpler and more fundamental than that.

The negative side of the American Dream comes when people pursue success at any cost, which in turn destroys the vision and the dream.

I've achieved 'the American dream.' I feel it's my duty to help others achieve their vision, too - especially the youth.

Network marketing is really the greatest source of grass-roots capitalism, because it teaches people how to take a small bit of capital, that is your time, and build the American dream.

In a way, J.F.K. was the high point of the American dream. In order to go to the moon and back, all we did was say we could - and we did.

We may come from different places and have different stories, but we share common hopes, and one very American dream.

The dangerous assumption we unknowingly accept in the American dream is that our greatest asset is our own ability.

The American dream, to me, means having the opportunity to achieve, because I don't think you should be guaranteed anything other than opportunity.

Every refugee finds his American dream on the backs of the nightmare of Black suffering in America.

The American Dream is not to own your own home, but to get your kids out of it.

I am the living attestation of the American dream. I am the extolment of this great nation.

I'm just a regular guy. I want people to realize that I embody the true American dream. I work hard. I went to school.

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.

To realize the American dream, the most important thing to understand is that it belongs to everybody. It's a human dream. If you understand this and work very hard, it is possible.

I define the American dream as the ability to imagine a way that you want your life to turn out, and have a reasonable hope that you can achieve that.

You destroy the initiative of the working people if they don't feel they have a fighting chance to be a part of the American Dream.

That is the heart and soul of the American dream, homeownership, the idea of being able to buy a house and start to build your family.

The American dream is, in part, responsible for a great deal of crime and violence because people feel that the country owes them not only a living but a good living.

Let's see what's going on over in Iraq. A Burger King has opened up and prostitutes are back on the street of Baghdad after 20 years. Fast food and hookers - they are truly living the American Dream.

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

I am an undiluted admirer of American values and the American dream and I believe they will continue to inspire not just the people of the United States but millions across the face of the globe.

I think it's what animates our president-elect [Donald Trump] more than anything else, is a belief in the boundless potential of every American to live the American dream.

Never lose your faith in the American Dream. She's a nation under God, and God has never let a good American down.

In the day we sweat it out on the streets on a runaway American dream.

When it comes to the American dream, no one has a corner on the market. All of us have an equal chance to share in that dream.

It would be hard to find a more compelling example of the American dream than Alberto Gonzales.

On an otherwise normal Tuesday evening I had the chance to live the American Dream. I was able to throw my incompetent jackass of a boss from a fourteenth-story window.

I am the American Dream. I am the epitome of what the American Dream basically said. It said you could come from anywhere and be anything you want in this country. That's exactly what I've done.

For a time, we forgot the American dream isn't one of making government bigger, it's keeping faith with the mighty spirit of free people under God

It makes me sad because I've never seen such--such beautiful shirts before.

Face your reality. You, black or white, are not innocent anymore. Either you have the courage to face it or you will go down together with the whole idea of the American Dream.

You can’t repeat the past.” “Can’t repeat the past?” he cried incredulously. “Why of course you can!

As Realtors, you live and breathe the American dream.

I look at subprime lending and I see the American dream in action.

The American Dream is ownership … a house, a car, a vacation home and, even better, your own business

So, yes, we do celebrate America today because the majority will stand up and empower the American people to live that American Dream and to be part of making a better, freer, and safer world.