Land Of Opportunity Quotes

• Our journey is not complete until we find a better way to welcome the striving, hopeful immigrants who still see America as a land of opportunity, until bright young students and engineers are enlisted in our workforce rather than expelled from our country.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Opportunity, Journey

  Second Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 21 January 2013, Washington, D.C.

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• America is a land of opportunity and don't ever forget it.

  Will Rogers

  Business, Opportunity, Land

  Will Rogers (1979). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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• We still believe in the America that is a land of opportunity and a beacon of freedom. We believe in the America that challenges each of us to be better and bigger than ourselves.

  Mitt Romney

  Believe, Opportunity, Land

  "The New Mitt: Tougher, Shinier, with a Hint of Nixon" by John Cassidy, www.newyorker.com. January 31, 2012.

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• When they say America is the land of opportunity, it's true. If you work hard, people appreciate you.

  Vijay Singh

  Hard Work, Opportunity, Land

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• America is still the land of opportunity for most, but it is not a land of opportunity for all. If we are to remain an exceptional nation, we must close this gap in opportunity.

  Marco Rubio

  Opportunity, Land, America

  Marco Rubio’s speech on poverty, hotair.com. January 8, 2014.

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• The fact is: It's true what they say about the United States. It is a land of opportunity. It is too various to get bored with it.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Opportunity, Land, Bored

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• Basically, there are two kinds of stereotypes out there in the world about America. There's America the Goliath - the big, powerful, bullying country that pushes its way around the world and gets its ways, pursues its own interests nakedly, irrespective of what others want. And the other stereotype is America, the land of opportunity, where everyone can go and do anything, be anything, make any dreams come true.

  Shashi Tharoor

  Dream, Country, Bullying

  Source: globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com

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• If we stop thinking of the poor as victims or as a burden and start recognizing them as resilient and creative entrepreneurs and value conscious consumers, a whole new world of opportunity will open up.

  C. K. Prahalad

  Inspirational, Opportunity, Thinking

  C.K. Prahalad (2009). “The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid, Revised and Updated 5th Anniversary Edition: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits”, p.25, FT Press

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• The land of opportunity spawned a whole new breed of men without souls.

  Don Henley

  Opportunity, Men, Land

  Song: The Garden of Allah

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• I am but a generation removed from poverty and despair. Where would I be today if there had never been an America? What kind of lives or future would my children have if this was not a land of opportunity?

  Marco Rubio

  Children, Opportunity, America

  Marco Rubio’s speech on poverty, hotair.com. January 8, 2014.

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• The Land of Opportunity is an attitude.

  B. J. Gallagher Hateley

  Attitude, Opportunity, Land

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• America stands for the land of opportunity.

  Michael Grimm

  Opportunity, Land, America

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• That someone like Obama could be elected president of the United States - with its unrivaled power and prestige - has begun to restore the country's and the world's faith in America as the land of opportunity.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Country, Opportunity, Land

  "Is Obama the Most Famous Living Person Ever?" by Dee Dee Myers, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 28, 2009.

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• America can restore its strengths as the world-respected land of opportunity by returning to open-society principles. An open society invests in people and new ideas, rewards talent and hard work, values dialogue and learns from dissent, operates to high standards with transparent information, looks for common ground, sees problems as opportunities for creative change, and encourages those who are fortunate to help others get the same chance, because service is the highest ideal. With such standards in mind, America the Beautiful can return to its admired role as America the Principled.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Beautiful, Hard Work, Helping Others

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter (2007). “America the Principled: 6 Opportunities for Becoming a Can-Do Nation Once Again”, p.8, Crown Business

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• President Obama has been a disaster for America. He's wrecked our economy, saddled our children with more debt than America managed to rack up in 225 years, and gone around the world apologizing for our country - as if the greatest nation in the world needs to apologize for being a land of opportunity and freedom, which we were before Obama became president.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Children, Opportunity

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• Git an eyeful of cesspool alley the land of opportunity.

  John Dos Passos

  Opportunity, Land, Alleys

  John Dos Passos (2013). “The Big Money: Volume Three of the U.S.A. Trilogy”, p.107, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We know that they cannot bear their share of the taxes to help pay for their education. And unless those children get a good education we know that they become dropouts and they become delinquents and they become taxeaters instead of taxpayers. We know that they will join the unemployed. That is why we put top priority on breaking the vicious cycle that today threatens the future of 5 million children in this great land of opportunity which we talk about so much.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Education, Children, Opportunity

  Remarks Before the National Conference on Educational Legislation, March 1, 1965.

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• We should be proud that so many want to come to America, that it is still seen as the land of opportunity. Let's make it a land of legal work, not black-market jobs. Let's make it a land of work, not welfare. Our land should be one of assimilation, not hiding in the shadows.

  Rand Paul

  Jobs, Opportunity, Hiding In The Shadows

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• The Internet has become an integral part of everyday life precisely because it has been an open-to-all land of opportunity where entrepreneurs, thinkers and innovators are free to try, fail and then try again.

  Ron Wyden

  Opportunity, Land, Entrepreneur

  "My Letter to the Internet" by Ron Wyden, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2012.

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• Encourage free schools and resolve that not one dollar appropriated for their support shall be appropriated to the support of any sectarian schools. Resolve that neither the state nor nation, nor both combined, shall support institutions of learning other than those sufficient to afford every child growing up in the land of opportunity of a good common school education, unmixed with sectarian, pagan, or atheistical dogmas. Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church and the private school supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Children, Growing Up, School

  Speech to the Society of the Army of Tennessee, archive.org. 1875.

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• My parents immigrated to the United States with $10 in their pocket and a belief that the America they had heard about really did exist as the land of opportunity.

  Mia Love

  Opportunity, Land, America

  "The America I know" by Mia Love, dailycaller.com. August 28, 2012.

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• Land of opportunity, land for the huddled masses where would the opportunity have been without the genocide of those Old Guard, bristling Indian tribes?

  Edward Hoagland

  Opportunity, Land, Tribes

  Edward Hoagland (2014). “On Nature: Selected Essays”, p.100, Rowman & Littlefield

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• As elected leaders, we must each recommit ourselves to work together toward putting our country on a prosperous, sustainable path and restoring Americas promise as a land of opportunity.

  Martha Roby

  Country, Opportunity, Land

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• There are many people abroad who want to help, who want to invest. We will give them the red-carpet treatment. We want them to realize that this is a land of opportunity. It always has been so, but we never allowed foreign investment to come into this country.

  Antonis Samaras

  Country, Opportunity, Land

  Source: www.slate.com

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• I actually did my research and tried to get kind of like a working visa for Australia. It always seemed like it was a land of opportunities. The same size as the United States with one-tenth of the population.

  Rick Nielsen

  Opportunity, Australia, Land

  Source: www.avclub.com

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