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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

We need to remain a nation that doesn't just welcome but that celebrates legal immigrants who come here seeking to pursue the American Dream. — Ted Cruz

I have lived the American dream, and that is the dream I want for our children and all children everywhere. — Mike Medavoy

The American dream has now morphed into an expectation. And if it isn't provided, or if it doesn't happen, then people feel cheated. — Rush Limbaugh

So the America I came to know growing up was filled with all the excitement and possibilities found in living the American dream. — Mia Love

Just to have the opportunity to play an American in America is a dream come true for me. — Andrew Lincoln

You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison. — Craig L. Thomas

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 is the largely unacknowledged screen in front of which all American writing plays itself out, — Arthur Miller

I guess my ideals died the hardest. It's often that way with the children of immigrants. We need to buy the dream so bad we sometimes can't wake up. — Sara Paretsky

The promise of the American Dream requires that we are all provided an equal opportunity to participate in and contribute to our nation. — Charles B. Rangel

Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live. — Douglas MacArthur

You can't fool all of the people all of the time. But it isn't necessary. — Will Rogers

We are going out again in search of the American dream. — Hunter S. Thompson

I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty — John F. Kennedy

Unless we make education a priority, an entire generation of Americans could miss out on the American dream. — Blanche Lincoln

What I have said to people is that I've lived the American dream, because I have. — Carly Fiorina

The American Dream is ownership ... a house, a car, a vacation home and, even better, your own business — Mario Batali

This team just wasn't good enough today, but they had the unity I always wanted. To have an American team like this has always been a dream of mine. — Bela Karolyi

It was an amazing adventure, it was my dream to be in an American musical ... I really hope you are going to love what you are going to see. — Marion Cotillard

Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires. — Ronald Wright

This is the city of dreamers and time and again it's the place where the greatest dream of all, the American dream, has been tested and has triumphed. — Michael Bloomberg

Pop art is
the American Dream, optimistic, generous, and naive! — Robert Indiana

As an educator, I have always striven to see that the fruits of the American Dream are available to all. — James D. Watson

I really love stand-up. I'm more than happy to do it for nothing. I've come to America to do it for nothing. It's the American Dream: Work for free. — John Oliver

The dangerous assumption we unknowingly accept in the American dream is that our greatest asset is our own ability. — David Platt

I was horrible at everything I ever tried to do and people respect me. The American Dream has come true!! — Karlheinz Stockhausen

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

When it comes to the American dream, no one has a corner on the market. All of us have an equal chance to share in that dream. — J. C. Watts

I see America through the eyes of the victim. I don't see any American dream--I see an American nightmare. — Malcolm X

A dream doesn't become reality ... — Colin Powell

Since when did the American Dream become the American Guarantee? — Michelle Malkin

On the surface, I've created a good life. I've lived the American dream. But I am still an undocumented immigrant. — Jose Antonio Vargas

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

The Chinese dream is an American dream embedded in a Confucian cocoon. — Patrick Mendis

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

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

College is part of the American dream. It shouldn't be part of a financial nightmare for families. — Barbara Mikulski

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 new American Dream is about having an interesting life, not making a lot of money. — Penelope Trunk

The American dream is not over. America is an adventure. — Theodore White

We believe that housing is a power platform to spark great opportunities in people's lives and help them achieve the American dream. — Julian Castro

I'm proud of every woman, of every American, that makes her dreams come true. — Ainsley Earhardt

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

There are no lobbyists for the American Dream. — Arianna Huffington

I think, in a lot of ways, celebrities represent the American dream. They have financial fluidity and options at their disposal. — Adrian Grenier

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

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

Part of the American dream is to own your own property - something no one can take from you. — Henry Bonilla

The American dream? We don't have a dream in Britain because we're bloody awake! — Al Murray

We need to forge a whole new energy and American Dream. — Will.i.am

Fitzgerald's plot may suggest that the American Dream is a mirage, but his words make that dream irresistible. — Maureen Corrigan

Another Clinton presidency would be a death blow to the American Dream. — Marco Rubio

A brick could be used in a levitation demonstration. The best way to keep it afloat, along with the American Dream, is with debt and denial. — Jarod Kintz

What happened to the American Dream? It came true! You're lookin' at it — Edward Blake

I've not only pursued the American dream, I've achieved it. I suppose we could say the last few years, I've also achieved the American nightmare. — Kenneth Lay

The American dream is not a sprint or even a marathon but a relay. — Julian Castro

I am the living attestation of the American dream. I am the extolment of this great nation. — Don King

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

I'm very pro-American - my entire family escaped poverty in Italy because they rightly believed in the American dream. — Camille Paglia

He's cutting the heart out of the American dream to own a home and have a good job ... and still he's popular

Tip O'Neill on Ronald Reagan — Chris Matthews

I really have the American dream licked. — Ted Nugent