American Dream Quotes - Page 11

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

  Craig L. Thomas

  Dream, Stuff, Prison

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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 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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• 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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• It would be hard to find a more compelling example of the American dream than Alberto Gonzales.

  Jon Kyl

  Dream, Example, Would Be

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• One day the South will know that when these disinherited children of God sat down at lunch counters, they were in reality standing up for what is best in the American dream and for the most sacred values in our Judaeo-Christian heritage, thereby bringing our nation back to those great wells of democracy which were dug deep by the founding fathers in their formulation of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Christian, Dream, Children

  "Why we can't wait".

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• Another Clinton presidency would be a death blow to the American Dream.

  Marco Rubio

  Dream, Blow, Would Be

  Marco Rubio (2015). “American Dreams: Restoring Economic Opportunity for Everyone”, p.10, Penguin

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• I don't buy into the dystopian scenarios of self-aware robots enslaving mankind, but you don't have to be a sci-fi conspiracy theorist to acknowledge that plenty of good, well-paying jobs are being taken over by machines.

  Marco Rubio

  Dream, Jobs, Taken

  Marco Rubio (2015). “American Dreams: Restoring Economic Opportunity for Everyone”, p.19, Penguin

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• 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.

  Todd Tiahrt

  Dream, Government, Liberty

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• 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.

  Bob Taft

  Senior, Dream, Strong

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• Network marketing is really the greatest source of grass-roots capitalism, because it teaches people how to take a small bit of capital, that is your time, and build the American dream.

  Jim Rohn

  Dream, Roots, People

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• Monstress is an exhilarating rollercoaster of a book. Deeply funny, heartbreaking, hopeful, philosophical, bawdy, and wise, Lysley Tenorio’s stories, written from the underbelly of the American Dream, present one brilliant portrait after another.

  Sabina Murray

  Wise, Dream, Book

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

  Nancy Pelosi

  Dream, Jobs, President

  The House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi's speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 5, 2012.

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• The American dream was not, at least at the beginning, a rags-to-riches type of narrow materialism.

  Charles A. Reich

  Dream, Rags, Riches

  Charles A. Reich (1970). “The Greening of America”

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• I'm in love with language again because Luke B. Goebel is not afraid to take us back through the gullet of loss into the chaos of words. Someone burns a manuscript in Texas; someone's speed sets a life on fire; a heart is beaten nearly to death, the road itself is the trip, a man is decreated back to his animal past--better, beyond ego, beautiful, and look: there's an American dreamscape left. There's a reason to go on.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Beautiful, Heart, Loss

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• I stand before you today as a disciplined conservative Texan, a committed Republican and a proud American, united with you to restoring our nation and revive the American dream.

  Rick Perry

  Dream, Proud, Today

  "The Deep Shame of Vancouver" by David Warren, www.realclearpolitics.com. June 19, 2011.

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• My great grandfather, like many, came to this country in search of the American Dream.

  Rand Paul

  Dream, Country, Grandfather

  Rand Paul's Speech at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Forida, www.washingtonpost.com. August 29, 2012.

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• When Americans are worried about losing their jobs, their savings, their homes and their chance at the American Dream, Congress and the president must work together to lift our economy and restore hope. That is the course the New Direction Congress will continue in the days and weeks ahead.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Dream, Jobs, Home

  "USA Today: Pelosi – We Need To Do More". www.democraticleader.gov. October 15, 2008.

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• Increasing access to federal student loans has been a bipartisan effort in Washington, one that I have supported. But it has created what many experts believe is a bubble in higher education, not unlike the housing bubble that preceded the financial crisis.

  Marco Rubio

  Dream, Believe, Effort

  Marco Rubio (2015). “American Dreams: Restoring Economic Opportunity for Everyone”, p.62, Penguin

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• It's like a kind of Barbie American dream. I have that childlike quality so a lot of little girls especially [like me]. I've always been a kid at heart. I think I always will be.

  Paris Hilton

  Girl, Dream, Heart

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• Mary Kay was the wholesome personification of the American dream. For women everywhere, she brought the impossible dream to life by making it a reality. She was a very wise lady. She was a people person. She was very sensitive to the importance of recognizing people.

  Zig Ziglar

  Wise, Dream, Reality

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• Our families and our homes are the center of American life, Everything we do is to make those homes-and the lives in them-more beautiful, more comfortable, more functional and more full of life and light and joy for those we love.

  Martha Stewart

  Beautiful, Dream, Home

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• The American dream is not a sprint or even a marathon but a relay.

  Julian Castro

  Dream, Marathon, Finish Line

  "The Things Julian Castro Can Say" by Charles P. Pierce, www.esquire.com. September 5, 2012.

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• 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. We've become more materialistic. For balance, I think we need to get back to idealism and patriotism, but also be realistic with our monetary goals.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Dream, Thinking, Goal

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