American Dream Quotes - Page 10

• As we embrace the American dream and the freedoms it represents, we must also ensure that those who wish to enjoy those freedoms become a part of our society and learn to speak our language.

  Bobby Jindal

  Dream, Wish, Our Society

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• The American dream belongs to all of us.

  Kamala Harris

  Dream

  "The American Dream belongs to all of us". Interview with Suzanne Malveaux, edition.cnn.com. September 6, 2012.

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• To read 'Happy Talk' is to crash a party as vivid and surreal as Felini's 8. It's the business of show business, the American dream, told by a chorus of Americans locked just outside of that dream, outside of the United States, relegated to expatriate status on the shores of Haiti. Melo paints a version of Haiti that's an interior landscape perhaps even more than an externalized place. This Haiti is a plan, a memory, a morphine-drip fueled dream out to bond its inhabitants forever.

  Monica Drake

  Dream, Memories, Party

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• You can't kill America. We're more than a nation. We're a notion. We're an idea. The American Dream. You never heard of the Afghanistani Dream have you. Except by bearded hermetic recluses with a fetish for uneducated women dressed as giant shuttlecocks.

  Will Durst

  Dream, Ideas, America

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• No American is prepared to attend his own funeral without the services of highly skilled cosmeticians. Part of the American dream, after all, is to live long and die young.

  Edgar Friedenberg

  Dream, Long, Funeral

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• I write about the American dream: if you set your mind to do something, you can do it. My fans know they're getting the real thing.

  Jackie Collins

  Dream, Real, Writing

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• We must redefine the American Dream before we rebuild the infrastructure on which it is based.

  Paolo Soleri

  Dream, Simple, Infrastructure

  "What if?: collected writings 1986-2000".

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• The American Dream is a phrase we'll have to wrestle with all of our lives. It means a lot of things to different people. I think we're redefining it now

  Rita Dove

  Dream, Mean, Thinking

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• As Realtors, you live and breathe the American dream.

  Charlie Crist

  Dream, Usa, Breathe

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• You can dream the American Dream
  But you sleep with the lights on
  And wake up with a scream

  Warren Zevon

  Dream, Sleep, Light

  Song: Fistful of Rain, Album: Life'll Kill Ya

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• I dare to imagine a country where every child I hold in my hands, are all God's children, regardless of the color of their skin, regardless of whether they're boy or girl, regardless of religion, regardless of rich or poor, that every child I hold in my hands, will have the same chance to reach her full potential or his full potential. That is the goodness of our country. That is the essence of the American dream.

  Paul Wellstone

  Girl, Dream, Country

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• I believe it from the bottom of my heart, and your sons and daughters, too, can have the American dream come true.

  Abraham A. Ribicoff

  Daughter, Dream, Believe

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• After working for 14 years on Wall Street and growing up in a family with strong roots in small business, I know how important the entrepreneurial spirit is to attaining the American dream.

  Ellen Tauscher

  Dream, Strong, Wall

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• The American dream does not happen by asking Americans to accept what's immoral and wrong in the name of tolerance.

  J. C. Watts

  Dream, Names, Tolerance

  J. C. Watts delivers the Republican Party response to President Bill Clinton's "State of the Union" Address, February 4, 1997.

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• What I care about is whether or not a leader will work with America's working people, whether or not a leader cares about responsibility and honest work and whether or not a leader will fight to keep the American Dream alive.

  Richard Trumka

  Dream, Responsibility, Fighting

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• The whole of the American Dream has been based on the chance to get ahead, for one's self or one's children. Would this country have ever reached the point it has if the individual had always been refused the rewards of his labors and dangers?

  James Adams

  Dream, Country, Children

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

  David Platt

  Dream, Assumption, Accepting

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• While the goal of the American dream is to make much of us, the goal of the gospel is to make much of God.

  David Platt

  Dream, Goal, Radical

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

  Joe Frazier

  Dream, Helping Others, Vision

  Interview With Jim Clash, uk.askmen.com.

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

  Dick Armey

  Funny, Dream, Home

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• Of course advertising creates wants. Of course it makes people discontented, dissatisfied. Satisfaction with things as they are would defeat the American Dream.

  Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

  Dream, People, Want

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• The need for a college education is even more important now than it was before, but I think that the increased costs are a very severe obstacle to access. It is an American dream, and I think that one of our challenges is to find a way to make that available.

  Roy Romer

  Dream, College, Thinking

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• You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.

  Craig L. Thomas

  Dream, Stuff, Prison

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• For me, the American Dream was to go racing; for others, it's to pursue whatever their goals may be.

  Rick Mears

  Dream, Goal, Racing

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• At the root of everything that we’re trying to accomplish is the belief that America has a mission. We are a nation of freedom, living under God, believing all citizens must have the opportunity to grow, create wealth, and build a better life for those who follow. If we live up to those moral values, we can keep the American dream alive for our children and our grandchildren, and America will remain mankind’s best hope.

  Ronald Reagan

  Dream, Children, Believe

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