Part of the American dream is ‘I can own my own business, I can control my destiny. I can have the opportunity to work for myself.’
When Rhode Island Senator Claiborne Pell first proposed the grants that now bear his name, he envisioned a way to help students attend our country’s wonderful colleges and universities, so they could share in the American Dream.
It would be hard to find a more compelling example of the American dream than Alberto Gonzales.
Forever 21 is my American Dream.
I’ve achieved ‘the American dream.’ I feel it’s my duty to help others achieve their vision, too – especially the youth.
The faith that anyone could move from rags to riches – with enough guts and gumption, hard work and nose to the grindstone – was once at the core of the American Dream.
It is morally wrong for this country to require our citizens to take on tens of thousands of dollars of debt to achieve the American Dream.
The American Dream is simple: it’s the unwavering belief that anybody – you, me, your friends, your neighbors, grandma Verna – can become exceedingly successful, and all it takes is the right amount of work, ingenuity, and determination.
The great thing about libertarianism is it really is the American dream: It’s the ability of everybody to live their life and build their life according to what they want, so long as they don’t hurt anybody else.
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.
When I became ‘The American Dream,’ they needed a hero down here. I had no money – I couldn’t buy a car without being tied under – but I had to have a Cadillac with blue stars on the hood no matter what it cost because just driving in it will set how they look at me and perceive this guy; they’ll know.
I see history as really cyclical in terms of the intense idealism and the desire to create a better life outside of societal norms. In America, possibly because of whatever the American dream is, this happens over and over again. These eras repeat.
We must give Oklahoma families the opportunity to thrive and prosper. We must give all Oklahomans the tools necessary to pursue the American dream. And then, we must get out of the way.
The American Dream has always focused on building a better life for yourself and your family, striving for success, and even fleeing from religious prosecution.
I think the most important thing that I think everyone in America must have is belief that wherever they live, whatever station they have in life, that the American dream is alive and well. I think the fracturing of trust and confidence is in the American dream.
Jobs are central to the American dream – and President Obama has focused on jobs from day one.
Immigrants have faced huge obstacles to achieving the American Dream, yet have persevered to overcome them.
The American Dream is really money.
Everybody comes here because of the American Dream.
You cannot give up on the American dream. We cannot allow our fears and our disappointments to lead us into silence and into inaction.
Education is the gateway to the American Dream. But today our immigration laws make higher education – a virtual requirement for financial security – out of reach for more than one million undocumented students.
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.
I believe in the American dream. I don’t want anyone to take advantage of it, and I don’t want anyone to ruin it, especially people who are not grateful to be here, who seemingly hate us and call us racists.
We need to remain a nation that doesn’t just welcome but that celebrates legal immigrants who come here seeking to pursue the American Dream.
I’ve lived the American Dream and had a great life. Immigration and religion and racial tolerance are the foundation of this country.
People are fascinated with the fast life, the easy life. For some reason, that’s an American dream, and it goes all the way back to the Edward G. Robinsons and the Cagneys.
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.
I’m hoping that the administration and other thought leaders will succeed eventually in bringing the country back to the older idea that the American dream is having a career, getting a job, and getting involved in it, and doing well. That was the core of the good life.
Southern California, where the American Dream came too true.
I was born on the other side of the tracks, in public housing in Brooklyn, New York. My dad never made more than $20,000 a year, and I grew up in a family that lost health insurance. So I was scarred at a young age with understanding what it was like to watch my parents lose access to the American dream.
I want people to know where I come from. I think I have come really far from that, and I did it on my own. It’s sort of the American dream to come from absolutely nothing and to succeed while still doing something that you love. Not compromising yourself in any way. I hope I’m making Jersey proud in that way.
President Obama’s approach embodies the values, the ideas, and the direction America must take to build a 21st century version of the American Dream in a nation of shared opportunities, shared prosperity and shared responsibilities.
As Realtors, you live and breathe the American dream.
By disgracing and degrading the presidency of the United States, by fleeing the White House like a diseased cur, Richard Nixon broke the heart of the American Dream.
If we all work together, then we can save the American Dream from the nightmare that is Donald Trump.
If you’re not willing to work, you’re never going to be able to experience the American Dream.
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.
I don’t believe in the American dream anyway, becoming a billionaire and buying expensive cars.
I’ve been living the American Dream for over 25 years – just being able to do what I do, be creative, and make money out of it. It’s incredible.
We need to be united, and we all need to understand that we’re all capable of achieving the American dream. And, but that has to be something that is self-realized. And also, to demonize someone for achieving the American dream is unfair.
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.
I think we just have to be mindful of what that definition of an American dream is. I think we are faced with a lot of definitions of that that are, frankly, unhealthy.
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.
I think ‘Holler If Ya Hear Me’ is almost ‘A Raisin in the Sun’ 50 years later, with just a different 20-year-old voice speaking the words. But it’s about access to the American dream and equal lives having equal value in America. It’s still holding a mirror up to us so we can see ourselves.
I’m very pro-American – my entire family escaped poverty in Italy because they rightly believed in the American dream.
I want to make sure that every kid, every young boy and young girl in this country gets the opportunity to live their American dream. That’s what the role of being in Congress and being a United States senator is all about.
We need to restore U.S. leadership to a world order that is rules-based in order to protect our American dream here at home.
If anyone can be said to embody the American Dream, it’s Kim Kardashian West.
They don’t call it the Italian Dream or the English Dream. In America, there is the American Dream. It was the first place to give people of any social background their dream. You can achieve anything.
We owe it to all our veterans to make sure they have a chance to achieve the American Dream, just like the rest of us.
The American dream tells you that you’ll have success if you work hard enough, and we have some concerns about that fallacy. Hopefully, the characters in our films learn to redefine success.
I travelled through the night in a bus with the Kentucky Tea Party en route to a massive rally in Washington. For the most part I found them decent, self-reliant, regular Americans who feared the American Dream was now over, not just for them but for their children and grandchildren.
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.
I never thought that I would come to live in the United States. I was not pursuing the American dream.
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.
We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.
