American Dream Quotes - Page 18

• The death tax punishes the American dream - making it virtually impossible for the average American family to build wealth across generations.

  Christopher Bond

  Dream, Average, Generations

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• When you've got a economy in which 40 percent of economic growth is happening in the financial sector, that turns out that was all an illusion, that it wasn't growth based on real products and services, but just a bunch of paper shuffling and a house of cards, then what's gonna emerge, at some point, is a sense of resentment, a sense that the system's rigged, and it's not working for ordinary people. And it's not fulfilling the basic American dream.

  Barack Obama

  Dream, Real, People

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• During the Reagan eighties, the idea that money was a good thing - it was good to be rich; that wealth was a reflection of your character. We see this today in perceptions of Donald Trump: the idea that money is an expression of success and even goodness. I compare that with my dad's generation, where the American Dream was about giving your kids a better life, but not just in material terms. The American Dream was also about doing something good in the world. The home was at the center of the dream, but home also represented community, shelter, and stability for your family.

  Lauren Greenfield

  Dream, Kids, Home

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I would say basically the commonplace observation that kids aren't going to earn as much as their parents is now is a coin flip at this point. Are you going to do better than your parents? It's a 50-50 chance, whereas if you were born in the 1940s or 1950s, you had more than a 90 percent chance you were going to do better than your parents. So basically almost a guarantee for most kids that you were going to achieve the American Dream of doing better than your parents did. Today, that's certainly no longer the case.

  Raj Chetty

  Dream, Kids, Parent

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I am proof that the American dream still exists.

  Paula Deen

  Dream, Proof, Deen

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• Misguided liberal Joseph Stiglitz.Columbia University professor and Nobel Prize winner, claims the American dream is dead.

  Jedediah Bila

  Dream, University Professors, Winner

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The American Dream is still alive and well… it’s just no longer in the United States.

  Simon Black

  Dream, United States, Alive

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• I'm living the American dream.

  Dick Vitale

  Dream, Living The American Dream

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• I've got a chart here that shows our debt-to-GDP ratio. And while we did run deficits in the past, we now number our debt in trillions rather than in billions. And I think that represents a long-term danger, especially to the, the American dream.

  Mark Kirk

  Running, Dream, Past

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. October 10, 2010.

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• The American dream, to me, means having the opportunity to achieve, because I don't think you should be guaranteed anything other than opportunity.

  Lenny Wilkens

  Dream, Mean, Opportunity

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• We’re not so free that we don’t have to listen to rules, and laws, and regulations. Those are important. But the spirit, the freedom of the spirit, that’s what I think of American Dream, that we are free here to do what we want to do, what we set out to do.

  Martha Stewart

  Success, Dream, Thinking

  "Discovering Everyday Good Things". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 2, 1995.

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• From the first moment a woman dared to speak that hope - dared to believe that the American Dream was meant for her too - ordinary women have taken on extraordinary odds to give their daughters the chance for something else; for a life more equal, more free, and filled with more opportunity than they ever had. In so many ways we have succeeded, but in so many areas we have much work left to do.

  Barack Obama

  Dream, Daughter, Freedom

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• I have committed my life to helping the poor, and I believe that if more companies followed Wal-Mart's lead in providing opportunity and savings to those who need it most, more Americans battling poverty would realize the American dream.

  Andrew Young

  Life, Dream, Believe

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

  Bob McDonnell

  Dream, Opportunity, Guarantees

  "Interview with Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell". "The John King, USA Show", www.realclearpolitics.com. March 20, 2012.

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• Wilderness is rapidly becoming one of those aspects of the American dream which is more of the past than of the present. Wilderness is not only a condition of nature, but a state of mind and mood and heart. It cannot be confined to the museum-case status—seen only as a passing diorama from superlative throughways.

  Ansel Adams

  Dream, Heart, Past

  Ansel Adams (1981). “Celebrating the American Earth: a Portfolio”

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• I believe that the gospel and the American Dream have fundamentally different starting points. The American Dream begins with self, exalts self, says you are inherently good and you have in you what it takes to be successful so do all you can, work with everything you have to make much of yourself. The gospel begins with God, the reality that we were created to exalt his name to the ends of the earth.

  David Platt

  Dream, Believe, Successful

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• It is important for us to remember that black people have been patriotic and have fought for that American dream in every American war.

  Adele Logan Alexander

  Dream, War, Patriotic

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• If you just sort of say, everyone gets equal pay, you get away from the whole American dream, you get away from capitalism in a sense.

  Donald Trump

  Dream, Equal Pay, Get Away

  "Who, exactly, was Ivanka Trump endorsing?" by Philip Bump, www.washingtonpost.com. July 22, 2016.

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• Hillary Clinton, President Obama, they're trying to turn the American dream into the European nightmare. We need to rescue the country from socialism.

  Bobby Jindal

  Dream, Country, Trying

  "Is the Confederate flag controversy a Democratic problem?". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. June 24, 2015.

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• I tell you what Hispanics in Virginia tell me they want. They want access to the American dream. Thats why they come here to Virginia and to America, so they want more opportunities to start small business, better schools.

  Bob McDonnell

  Dream, School, Opportunity

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• Only a dreamer or a fool would pick a stock at random and expect it to take off like a space ship from its launching pad. Certainly this has happened - about as often as a dime-store clerk has become a Hollywood star or a boy born in a log cabin has been elected President of the United States - just often enough, that is, to keep alive the Great American Dream.

  Catherine Crook de Camp

  Dream, Stars, Boys

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• Rand Paul is officially running for president. He even revealed his campaign slogan, which is 'Defeat the Washington machine. Unleash the American dream.' It's hard to tell if he's running for president or doing an infomercial for Bowflex.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Running, Dream, President

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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

  Dream, Nations, Loses

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• Immigrants have faced huge obstacles to achieving the American Dream, yet have persevered to overcome them.

  Charles Rangel

  Dream, Overcoming, Obstacles

  "Why I Went to Jail" by Rep. Charles Rangel, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 17, 2013.

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• I love the fact that trying is respected. The American Dream: if you try, if you build it, they will come. I love that. It's honorable.

  Eddie Izzard

  Dream, Trying, Facts

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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