American Dream Quotes

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.

Marco Rubio

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The American dream is under assault.

James A. Forbes

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Every time a bookseller hands a child a book, they are doing something that is the heart and soul of the American dream and the American ideal. It's a very sacred tradition.

Jewell Parker Rhodes

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My biggest inspiration is black America and what they've done in the arts. I have always felt like an outsider in America, and what black Americans have done to add their chapter to this book called the American dream, and to be so unapologetic and true, and have added so much to art and culture in the world.

Hasan Minhaj

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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

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What some Americans don't appreciate is how strong the brand of the American Dream is around the world. I'm an example of how powerful that product is.

Dara Khosrowshahi

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I had come to college believing in a story that if you worked hard, the American dream was reachable.

Matthew Desmond

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I part of this great nation because my grandfather was born here, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He took a horse, back in 1895, and ride it all the way down to Guanajuato, looking for his American dream. No penny in his pocket, only dreams in his head. And he was an immigrant coming from the States into Mexico. And he found his American dream in Mexico.

Vicente Fox

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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.

Steve Forbes

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I have met hundreds of young people doing just what George Romney did: using a hand up in tough times to become part of the American Dream.

R. T. Rybak

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There are a lot of people in the Rust Belt who felt like, 'Nobody's concerned about me, and my shot at the American dream is going away.' We need to restore that.

Steve Scalise

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Jobs are central to the American dream - and President Obama has focused on jobs from day one.

Nancy Pelosi

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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

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If there is still an American dream, reading is one of the bootstraps by which we can all pull ourselves up.

Karin Slaughter

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The history of my state of Oklahoma offers a great example of pursuing the American Dream. It was built and settled by pioneers moving West to seek better lives.

Mary Fallin

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My father worked in the Post Office. A lot of double shifts. All his friends were in the same situation - truck drivers, taxi cab drivers, grocery clerks. Blue collar guys punching the clock and working long, hard hours. The thought that sustained them was the one at the center of the American dream.

Gary David Goldberg

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

Michael Moriarty

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The American dream seems to be thriving in Europe not at home.

Fareed Zakaria

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I love and admire the American culture and the American dream. I learnt so many things about the American shoe industry and marketing strategies. I caught the secrets of American casual wear, that is elegant and wearable, retro and modern, and mixed it with an Italian touch, luxurious and handmade.

Diego Della Valle

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College is part of the American dream. It shouldn't be part of a financial nightmare for families.

Barbara Mikulski

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We march on toward the realization of the American Dream. We are not diverted by those who would deny opportunity based on what we look like or where we came from or who would deny equality based on who we love.

Donna Brazile

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I had a blast. 'Shark Tank' embodies the American Dream. If you watch the show at home, you find yourself constantly hollering at the Sharks. Being able to sit next to them and call them out in real time was quite a privilege.

Chris Sacca

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Are we a nation of guarantees or are we a nation of opportunities to achieve the American dream?

Bob McDonnell

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I think of Superman as the ultimate vanilla hero. He's this perfect refugee, this perfect immigrant from another planet who embodies the American dream.

Antje Traue

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