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• President Obama's approach embodies the values, the ideas and the direction America has to take to build the 21st-century version of the American Dream: a nation of shared opportunities, shared responsibilities, shared prosperity, a shared sense of community.

  William J. Clinton

  Dream, Responsibility, Opportunity

  William J. "Bill" Clinton's speech at the Democratic National Convention, www.nytimes.com. September 5, 2012.

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• Our theme for this year's festivities, Dreams and Challenges of Asian Pacific Americans, speaks to the many generations of Asian Pacific Americans who worked hard to overcome economic hardship, racism and other barriers in their pursuit of the American dream.

  Lucille Roybal-Allard

  Dream, Years, Racism

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• I grew up in a working class family where there was no health insurance. I saw first hand the fracturing of the American dream and the bitterness that comes when there is no hope and a lot of despair. So I wanted to build the company, in a sense, that my father never got a chance to work for.

  Howard Schultz

  Inspirational, Dream, Father

  "Full of beans" by Terry Macalister, www.theguardian.com. October 16, 2004.

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• Greek myths are heroic, noble and tragic; but the American Dream is heroic, comical, and uplifting. Americans are a people in whom overweening ambition is rewarded, not punished. The Wright Brothers did not have their wings melt when they flew too high. Perhaps their wings were more soundly built than those of Icarus.

  John C. Wright

  Uplifting, Dream, Brother

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• We have to stand up for these issues when it's tough, and that's what I've done. I did it when I was in the state legislature, sponsoring the Illinois version of the DREAM Act, so that children who were brought here through no fault of their own are able to go to college, because we actually want well-educated kids in our country who are able to succeed and become part of this economy and part of the American dream.

  Barack Obama

  Dream, Country, Children

  The California Democratic Debate in Los Angeles, www.realclearpolitics.com. January 31, 2008.

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• What would you consider a good job?" Answered as follows: "A good job is one in which I don't have to work, and get paid a lot of money." When I heard that I cheered and yelled and felt that he should be given an A+, for he had perfectly articulated the American dream of those who despise knowledge. What a politician that kid would have made.

  Isaac Asimov

  Dream, Jobs, Kids

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• Las Vegas is the savage heart of the American Dream.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Dream, Heart, Vegas

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

  Charlie Crist

  Dream, Usa, Breathe

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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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• 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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• Richard Nixon has never been one of my favorite people anyway. For years I've regarded his existence as a monument to all the rancid genes and broken chromosomes that corrupt the possibilities of the American Dream; he was a foul caricature of himself, a man with no soul, no inner convictions, with the integrity of a hyena and the style of a poison toad. The Nixon I remembered was absolutely humorless; I couldn't imagine him laughing at anything except maybe a paraplegic who wanted to vote Democratic but couldn't quite reach the lever on the voting machine.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Dream, Integrity, Men

  "Pageant" Magazine, July 1968.

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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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• 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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• Yes I know my enemies. They're the teachers who taught me to fight me, compromise, conformity, assimilation, submission, ignorance, hypocrisy, brutality, the elite, all of which are American dreams.

  Zack de la Rocha

  Dream, Teacher, Ignorance

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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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• I thank God that America still has one party that reaches out their hands in love to lift up all of God's children - born and unborn, and says that each of us has dignity and all of us have the right to live the American Dream.

  Rick Santorum

  Dream, Children, Party

  Republican National Convention speech, www.politico.com. August 29, 2012.

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

  Phil Gramm

  Dream, Looks, Action

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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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• 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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