All Quotes

The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.
‐‐ J. G. Ballard

The American dream is a crock. Stop wanting everything. Everyone should wear jeans and have three T-shirts, eat rice and beans.
‐‐ Bill Hicks

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

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.
‐‐ Marco Rubio

The American dream is about freedom.
‐‐ Nancy Pelosi

The American dream is dead for the majority of America.
‐‐ Suze Orman

The American Dream is independence and being able to create that dream for yourself.
‐‐ Marsha Blackburn

The American dream is more about opportunity than anything else.
‐‐ Nate Parker

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.
‐‐ Marsha Blackburn

The American Dream is one of success, home ownership, college education for one's children, and have a secure job to provide these and other goals.
‐‐ Leonard Boswell

The American Dream is really money.
‐‐ Jill Robinson

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.
‐‐ Bill Rancic

The American dream is still to own your home.
‐‐ Barry Sternlicht

The American dream is under assault.
‐‐ James A. Forbes

The American Dream may be slipping away. We have overcome such challenges before. To recover the Dream requires knowing where it came from, how it lasted so long and why it matters so much.
‐‐ Jon Meacham

The American Dream never really existed. It was a marketing scam.
‐‐ James Altucher

The American dream seems to be thriving in Europe not at home.
‐‐ Fareed Zakaria

The American Dream, the idea of the happy ending, is an avoidance of responsibility and commitment.
‐‐ Jill Robinson

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

The American dream, what we were taught was, grow up, own a car, own a house. I think that dream's completely changing. We were taught to keep up with the Joneses. Now we're sharing with the Joneses.
‐‐ Brian Chesky

The American economic, political, and social organization has given to its citizens the benefits of material prosperity, political liberty, and a wholesome natural equality; and this achievement is a gain, not only to Americans, but to the world and to civilization.
‐‐ Herbert Croly

The American economy has always been driven by the entrepreneurial nature of its citizens, and blocking access to affordable health care will only suffocate growth within the small business sector of our economy.
‐‐ Paul Gillmor

The American economy has always been the innovator in the world, and we're starting to see some tremendous increases in innovation, especially in the clean energy sector.
‐‐ Tim Kaine

The American economy has been built and sustained by risk-taking entrepreneurs whose pioneering ideas and hard work gave birth to flourishing businesses.
‐‐ Mike Pence

The American education system couldn't be more badly directed or poorly funded if the Secretary of Education were Ed Wood.
‐‐ Dennis Miller

The American electorate are getting disgusted with weaklings who blow where the wind takes them while frittering away our precious lifeblood and borrowing money from our new owners, the Chinese.
‐‐ Cindy Sheehan

The American empire will not disappear... because America does not have an empire.
‐‐ Michael Mandelbaum

The American escalation of the war in Laos provoked a response by the Communist forces, which now control more of Laos than ever before.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

The American experience influenced my understanding of individuality, basic human rights, freedom of expression and the rights and responsibilities of citizens.
‐‐ Ai Weiwei

The American experiment has always depended on a measure of tolerance and good sense.
‐‐ David Ignatius

The American fantasy of love is the 'meet-cute,' 'Love at first sight,' and 'You had me at hello!' The completely spontaneous version of accidental love, which doesn't care about demographics and social compatibility.
‐‐ Susan Straight

The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information.
‐‐ Henry A. Wallace

The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism.
‐‐ Henry A. Wallace

The American Federation of Teachers has a long track record of working with administrators, parents, and communities to provide real help to struggling students and low-performing schools. We've learned that intensive interventions, proven programs, and adequate resources can transform students' lives and their schools.
‐‐ Randi Weingarten

The American flag is an enduring symbol of liberty, democracy, and justice. It is fitting that the House act to protect it as we approach our nation's birthday, and as our men and women in uniform rally behind it in Iraq's battlefields.
‐‐ Joe Barton

The American flag is the most recognized symbol of freedom and democracy in the world.
‐‐ Virginia Foxx

The American flag is the symbol of our freedom, national pride and history.
‐‐ Mike Fitzpatrick

The American flag, Old Glory, standing tall and flying free over American soil for 228 years is the symbol of our beloved country. It is recognized from near and afar, and many lives have been lost defending it.
‐‐ Jeff Miller

The American flag represents all of us and all the values we hold sacred.
‐‐ Adrian Cronauer

The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions.
‐‐ Henry A. Kissinger

The American formula for creating business is not to have the government create business.
‐‐ John Sununu

The American free market system is the greatest engine for prosperity and opportunity that the world has ever seen. Freedom works.
‐‐ Ted Cruz

The American future is here, and there's great news: the future votes.
‐‐ Rosario Dawson

The American government policy on what we supported and subsidised in agriculture was a social experiment on a whole generation of children.
‐‐ Ruth Reichl

The American government will be whatever we all make of it.
‐‐ Megan Smith

The American grips himself, at the very sources of his consciousness, in a grip of care: and then, to so much of the rest of life, is indifferent. Whereas, the European hasn't got so much care in him, so he cares much more for life and living.
‐‐ D. H. Lawrence

The American high school graduate is two years behind his English, French or German counterpart; in Alabama, God knows how far behind.
‐‐ Gore Vidal

The American idea is as promising, imaginative, and full of the unexpected as the land itself. The land represents freedom - the frontier, the ability to make a new future with your own bare hands.
‐‐ Anna Deavere Smith

The American idea that everyone graduates high school at 18 is a good one.
‐‐ David Miliband