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No one understands and appreciates the American Dream of hard work leading to material rewards better than a non-American. — Anthony Bourdain

The American Dream has been defined in dollar signs and square footage. — Joshua Becker

Get off your bottom and be the stand, and do the work you can to pursue the American Dream for yourself, and help others to do the same. — David Pratt

You can dream the American Dream
But you sleep with the lights on
And wake up with a scream
— Warren Zevon

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

Judge Samuel Alito's accomplishments in life are the embodiment of the American dream. — Frank Lautenberg

And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. — Martin Luther King Jr.

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

Perhaps the heart of the American Dream was found in the search. — William McKeen

High school dropouts are forfeiting their opportunity to pursue the American Dream. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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

He seemed to swallow the lie I fed him. I hope he's not still hungry. If he is, I'll give him the illusory dessert known as the American Dream. — Jarod Kintz

A basic element of the American dream is equal access to education as the lubricant of social and economic mobility. — Nicholas Kristof

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

If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die. — Rand Paul

If you're not willing to work, you're never going to be able to experience the American Dream. — Jim Jordan

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

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

For a time, we forgot the American dream isn't one of making government bigger, it's keeping faith with the mighty spirit of free people under God — Ronald Reagan

Are we a nation of guarantees or are we a nation of opportunities to achieve the American dream? — Bob McDonnell

I couldn't achieve the American dream in Japan. — Shuji Nakamura

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

The American dream is what has kept Americans from rebelling against corporate corruption.Now that 2/3 of us know it's dead, expect anything. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

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

Creativity is the lifeblood of American ingenuity and the yellow brick road to the American Dream. — Ashfaq Ishaq

Seeking the invisible through the imagery of the visible, the Americans never can get quite all the way to the end of the American dream. — Lewis H. Lapham

The truth is that I've always been fascinated with wealth in America. To me, it's been about the American dream and the corruption of that dream. — Leonardo DiCaprio

Immigrants have faced huge obstacles to achieving the American Dream, yet have persevered to overcome them. — Charles B. Rangel

I look at subprime lending and I see the American dream in action. — Phil Gramm

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

I've been extremely fortunate in my life. So I actually believe that I'm the living embodiment of living the American dream. — Dan Rosensweig

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

Everyone must have a shot at the American Dream. — Howard Schultz

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

Success is the American Dream. And that success is not something to be ashamed of, or to demonize. — Susana Martinez

Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker room is the temple where they worship arrested development. — Dave Barry

The American dream is under attack because our government has been hijacked by the Liberals in Washington DC. — Herman Cain

That American Dream that y'all fight so hard for over there ? The freedom that you would die to protect. They're yours too, you know. — Kristen Proby

I'm not the American Nightmare. I am the American Dream! — Donald Freed

Imagine a legal immigration system that welcomes and celebrates those who come to achieve the American dream. — Ted Cruz

However, here's a warning you may want to heed about the American dream-read the fine print! — J.C. Phillips

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

We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans. — Max Beerbohm

The American Dream is not to own your own home, but to get your kids out of it. — Dick Armey

Was 9/11 not the 20th congress of the American Dream? — Slavoj Zizek

The suburbs are the American dream, right? Living in a nice house, having a good job, a happy family. — Cheryl Hines

People say I'm America's worst nightmare. I say I'm the American dream. — Latrell Sprewell

Butt fucking the American dream so you can buy cheap T-shirts at Old Navy. Isn't life beautiful? — Shane Kuhn

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

I think the greatest thing about America is the American Dream. — Wyclef Jean

I've absolutely lived the American dream. — Rick Scott

Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream — Hunter S. Thompson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The house burned in the fire. Her house. Her prison of lies and of denial. Her American dream turned nightmare."~Unbreakable Heart — Kimberly Kinrade

I want everybody in Florida to live the American dream. — Rick Scott

The American dream does not come to those who fall asleep. — Gerald R. Ford

I've lived the American Dream, but, sadly, for too many, the American Dream is fading. — Cathy McMorris Rodgers

This country isn't working for working people. It's working only for people at the top. That's not the American dream. That's the American nightmare. — Elizabeth Warren

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

The American Dream starts with the neighborhoods. — Harvey Milk

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

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

For many, the American dream has become a nightmare. — Bernie Sanders

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

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

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

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

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

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

I really have the American dream licked. — Ted Nugent

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

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