In this post, you will find great American Dream Quotes from famous people, such as Dave McClure, Hasan Minhaj, Kane, Leon Panetta, Mark Meadows. You can learn and implement many lessons from these quotes.
I want to make sure that we have a tax code that makes sure that everyone benefits, including those in poverty and those middle-income wage earners and those that have already lived the American dream as well as making sure that everyone can receive the benefits of a robust economy and not just the select few.
I want American Dream growth – lots of new businesses, well-paying jobs, and American leadership in new industries, like clean energy and biotechnology.
The best work of literature to represent the American Dream is ‘The Great Gatsby‘ by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It shows us how dreaming can be tainted by reality, and that if you don’t compromise, you may suffer.
We believe that housing is a power platform to spark great opportunities in people’s lives and help them achieve the American dream.
The truth is, most undocumented immigrants come here for economic opportunity and the American Dream. They aren’t seeking tax credits or handouts.
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.
The American Dream is really money.
Your grandparents came of age in the Great Depression, when everyday life was about deprivation and sacrifice, when the economic conditions of the time were so grave and so unrelenting it would have been easy enough for the American dream to fade away.
I believe in the American Dream because I have lived the American Dream.
President Trump is performing a political exorcism on those who prefer to turn the U.S. into a socialist country – a country where the American Dream would become the American Nightmare.
Everyone must have a shot at the American Dream.
They talk about the American Dream. I still believe in that. I still believe that this is a great country, where great things can happen, where anybody can become president of the United States. Just that simple statement there defines so much about the whole business of liberty and freedom and the pursuit of happiness.
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.
The American dream is you come here, you believe in democracy, you believe in the Constitution, you work hard, you can make it.
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.
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.
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.
I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves.
I’m passionate about the American Dream because it’s not a fictitious thing for me. It’s real for me.
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.
If there is still an American dream, reading is one of the bootstraps by which we can all pull ourselves up.
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.
I think the American Dream should be about a greater progressive legislation that allows for what I call a necessary future world of cooperational humanism.
The American dream will never be lost.
We are really living the American dream, to be a successful brand in the States and in Europe and to steep ourselves in our heritage. But we do it with a sense of humor. We don’t take ourselves too seriously in fashion.
The American Dream – that’s our folly. That’s our folly. Look where we’re ending up.
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.
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.
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.
The American Dream is that any man or woman, despite of his or her background, can change their circumstances and rise as high as they are willing to work.
The American Dream is still alive out there, and hard work will get you there. You don’t necessarily need to have an Ivy League education or to have millions of dollars startup money. It can be done with an idea, hard work and determination.
The American dream belongs to all of us.
I think Democrats are right. We fight for the American dream, for the environment, for privacy rights, a woman’s right to choose, a good public education system.
I play for the America that embraces refugees from war-torn nations, for the America that welcomes all people who want the chance to experience the American Dream, for the America that appreciates the contributions from all the people it shelters.
It was the combination of hard work and a hand up that allowed me to become one of the first women to fly in combat missions and achieve my American Dream.
As Realtors, you live and breathe the American dream.
We need to forge a whole new energy and American 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.
My story is the American dream that my parents fled Cuba for.
There is nothing more classic in the realm of casual than jeans and a white tee – a look that is inherently Americana and reminiscent of the American Dream – an optimistic dream of opportunity, individuality, freedom, and the embodiment of one living their truth.
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.
I’m the daughter of refugees. The immigrant mentality is to work hard, be brave, and never give up in your pursuit of achieving the American dream.
President Obama is a principled man who has worked hard to put healthcare and a good education in the reach of millions of Americans and believes that everyone who works hard and plays by the rules, should have a fair shot at the American dream.
When I was leaving Yemen to come to America, things were tough. My dad had just been laid off, and it was a challenge. When I lived in Yemen, I thought America was a perfect place. Everything was bigger and better. I dreamed big. The American dream, you know? You have to work hard for your dream to come true.
I think the American Dream used to be achieving one’s goals in your field of choice – and from that, all other things would follow. Now, I think the dream has morphed into the pursuit of money: Accumulate enough of it, and the rest will follow.
I’m living the American dream, but I’m in Japan.
The American dream comes from opportunity. The opportunity comes from our founding principles, our core values that’s held together and protected by the Constitution. Those ideas are neither Republican, Democrat, conservative, liberal, white, or black. Those are American ideologies.
Being a first-generation Cuban American, my story represents the American Dream.
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.
I’ve absolutely lived the American dream.
I never thought that I would come to live in the United States. I was not pursuing the American dream.
Every American deserves a shot at the American dream.
The power of immigration, the power of the American dream, if you think about the American dream, it is the best brand out there.
I believe that it is higher education‘s purpose and calling to keep open the door to the American dream.
I am the American Dream.
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.
The American dream is more about opportunity than anything else.
The American Dream is independence and being able to create that dream for yourself.
There are all these people in this country who are just not participating in the American Dream at all.
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 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.
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.
So the America I came to know growing up was filled with all the excitement and possibilities found in living the American dream.
As an immigrant, I have lived, in a way, the American dream, and I want to make sure that opportunity is available for everybody.
With Americans worried about losing their jobs, their savings, their homes and their chance at the American Dream, the New Direction Congress will work in a bipartisan way to lift our economy and help America’s middle class.
The Democratic Party is always going to be the party of civil rights and fairness – everybody gets an equal, fair shot at the American dream. And we’re going to be the party that really fights to protect planet Earth – enjoy whatever time we’re going to get!
I knew that good people who wanted to be a part of the American dream have become trapped in dependency because the federal government and the state government had made it in their economic interest not to take a job because the benefits that they didn’t work were better. I changed that.
I’m just an American dream.
We need to show the fact that when you start thinking about freedom and liberty, personal responsibility, and opportunity to achieve the American Dream, the Republican party is the best party to do that.
Americans are right to believe the American Dream is fading. But that dream only became a possibility for white men as a result of the labor struggles and reforms of the New Deal, and it began to extend to minorities and women only after the civil rights and women’s movements of the 1960s and 1970s.
For too many of our young people, that once-promised American dream has given way to an American debt burden and a bleak job market.
Americans can accept that the American Dream will not work out for them; what has been heartbreaking for so many is the sense that their children will have it even worse.
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.
Whether we are working to pay off student loans, credit card debt, paying for elder or childcare, or even trying to save for retirement, the idea of the American dream still remains just that – a 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.
One night in 1974, I made the comment, ‘Here I am, this fat kid, the son of a plumber. I don’t look like a body builder; fist fight in a parking lot, it doesn’t matter. I’m getting ready to sell out this building. I’m going to sell out Madison Square Garden one day. This is the American Dream. I’m living it.’
In the fields of southwest Iowa, my parents and grandparents worked and sacrificed. Like so many Iowans, the American Dream for them was never about wealth or fame. Their dream was to leave their children and grandchildren a better life, with greater opportunity, than their own.
There’s nothing in the American dream about character. It’s a serious flaw.
For a good part of my childhood, we were super poor and lived in government housing. I don’t characterize the American dream as being successful and having a lot of material wealth to show for it. I did fine without it for a really long time.
Everything depends on a good job – strong families, strong communities, the pursuit of the American dream, and a tax base to support schools for our kids and services for our seniors.
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.
I’ve long been interested in looking at the culture of consumerism and also was interested in this connection between the American dream and the house, and the house being kind of the ultimate expression of self and success.
I have known Senator Rubio for a number of years, and he is an inspiring, courageous, and bold leader who embodies the American dream of freedom and equal opportunity for all.
No one will steal my son’s American Dream.
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.
Donald Trump is living proof of the American Dream. A kid from Queens, New York, who made it big. And, yeah – he’ll be the first to tell you he isn’t perfect. But who is?
Everything I know about work and opportunity, I learned from my parents. They risked everything to ensure my family and I could have a shot at the American Dream.
I don’t believe that the American dream should be reserved for those who are born into the elite or somehow have been given an advantage over others. My growing-up experience is probably the most important thing that guides my priorities and my work today.
You know that American dream and American spirit of innovation we always talk about? Turns out, the bulk of it was built by people who came to America from somewhere else, not people born American. We have no birthright or natural lock on these things.
Sometimes well-intentioned programs can lead to dependency and cause us to forget we have what it takes to attain the American dream.
It would be hard to find a more compelling example of the American dream than Alberto Gonzales.
The American Dream I believe in is one that provides anyone willing to work hard enough with the opportunity to succeed.
The promise of the American Dream requires that we are all provided an equal opportunity to participate in and contribute to our nation.
I had come to college believing in a story that if you worked hard, the American dream was reachable.
There are those 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.
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.
I am a prime example of what the American dream is.
I’m somewhat of a socialist in the sense that I believe in housing for the homeless and medical care for all. So, for me, the American dream has been having a TV show, and being successful and having a nice house and having everything.
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.
For me, the labor movement and public education are linked as the essential building blocks to a strong middle class and a path to the American dream. It’s why I went to Cornell’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations as an undergrad and then to law school.
The American dream is under assault.
It’s dangerous to buy the American Dream without questioning. We need to ask, ‘Why do I want this dream?’
Never lose your faith in the American Dream. She’s a nation under God, and God has never let a good American down.
What I love about AT&T is that they are just as passionate as I am about rebooting the American dream.
No person can maximize the American Dream on the minimum wage.
I’m in a weird band. We’ve done very well. The American Dream is alive and well.
The American dream always meant that anybody willing to put in a hard day’s work could make a decent living. That’s just not true anymore for people without at least some post-high school education.
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.
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.
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.
I am living the American dream, and everybody is not able to live that dream.
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.
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.
At my core, I know that the American Dream is about the opportunity to work hard to make your future.
Our country was built upon the idea that if you work hard and play by the rules, you can achieve the ‘American dream’ and create a better future for your children.
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.
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.
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.
We believe that in times like these we should turn to each other, not on each other. We believe that government has a role to play, not in solving every problem in everybody’s life but in helping people help themselves to the American dream. That’s what Democrats believe.
I didn’t come to Washington to fight against my Republican colleagues, or even against my colleagues on the other side of the aisle. I came to Washington to fight for the values that make our country unique – for the economic freedom that gives life to the American Dream.
People talk about how great this country is – and it’s a great country – but I feel that many young people don’t believe they have access to the American dream.
I definitely really wanted to go to college and live my mom’s full American dream fantasy of her son being a nurse.
There’s this American dream to put enough away that you can golf and build a birdhouse or just be in a Barcalounger watching football all day. I’ll never be that guy. And I’m not really sure the people who have that are all that happy. Our desires as a man are to work, plow ahead, and overcome conflict.
For many, the American dream has become a nightmare.
There are those, I know, who will reply that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is. It is the American Dream.
Like pretty much every other ambitious person, I always figured I’d eventually move to New York. It is, at this point, half-dream and half-obligation for people trying to do big things. It’s the American Dream inside the American Dream.
The American dream has now morphed into an expectation. And if it isn’t provided, or if it doesn’t happen, then people feel cheated.
Democrats believe in reigniting the American dream by removing barriers to success and building ladders of opportunity for all, so everyone can succeed.
I love the American dream. I feel this is the place I was supposed to be in. It’s beautiful. I love it.
Are we a nation of guarantees or are we a nation of opportunities to achieve the American dream?
I talk about my dad and the American dream, and I just want to say to Americans how fascinated we are by America. We would love Americans to look at the rest of the world that way sometimes.
The ADA gave more than 50 million Americans with disabilities, just like my son Cole, the chance to live the American Dream and be defined only by their potential – not their limitations.
Forever 21 is my American Dream.
Hyperloop One is the American Dream, and it’s fast becoming an American reality.
There are few things that define us as a country more distinctly than the idea of the American Dream. The idea that anyone can make it here through hard work and dedication. And that dream rests on giving people here a fair shot.
If you’re not willing to work, you’re never going to be able to experience the American Dream.
High school dropouts are forfeiting their opportunity to pursue the American Dream.
I live a very satisfying life. Not because I’ve made a few dollars, but because I have a wife who loves me and children who wait for me to come home. And that is beautiful. I think that’s the American dream: to be at peace at home.
The American dream is still to own your home.
When we make college more affordable, we make the American dream more achievable.
For me, the American Dream was to go racing; for others, it’s to pursue whatever their goals may be.
If you really look at it, I have done the ‘American Dream’ that people have died on boats to come here to live.
Get off your bottom and be the stand, and do the work you can to pursue the American Dream for yourself, and help others to do the same.
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.
What I have said to people is that I’ve lived the American dream, because I have.
I think the American Dream is kind of a myth, especially for millennials.
The American dream is about freedom.
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’m here to speak for those who say the American Dream isn’t working for them, because I know it isn’t. I’m here to say it’s not your fault: the ruling class… has failed you.
The American Dream is not being dependent on the federal government for your health care, for your automobile, for your college education, for your student loan on and on and on.
I really have the American dream licked.
I run for president because I believe that we can’t just save the American dream; we can expand it to reach more people and change more lives than ever before.
I believe in the American Dream, because I’ve lived it.
For the next century, the Republicans have agreed that we will promote the dignity and future of every individual by building a free society under a limited, accountable government that protects liberty, security and prosperity for a brighter American dream.
I couldn’t achieve the American dream in Japan.
Hope will be found by understanding that diversity is the essence of the American Dream and why we need each other to fulfill it.
Everybody comes here because of the American Dream.
If we all work together, then we can save the American Dream from the nightmare that is Donald Trump.
