“Barack Obama was not born into wealth or privilege, yet today his is president of these United States of America. Barack Obama has lived the American Dream. He has walked in our shoes.” StatesDreamTodayAmericaPresidentBornWealthUnitedUnited StatesShoesPrivilegeBarackAmerican DreamUnited States Of America Author:Ken Salazar
“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.” Has BeensStatesEnoughDreamStarsPresidentBornSpaceUnitedBoysUnited StatesAliveHappenedFoolPicksHollywoodStoresShipsDreamerAmerican DreamDimesGreat AmericanClerksPadsCabinsLaunchingHollywood StarsLog Cabins Author:Catherine Crook de Camp
“Whoever is writing in the United States is using the American Dream as an ironical pole of his story. People elsewhere tend to accept, to a far greater degree anyway, that the conditions of life are hostile to mans pretensions.” PeopleWritingStatesStoriesDreamUnitedAcceptingUnited StatesGreaterConditionsDegreesElsewhereAmerican DreamHostilePretensionStory People Book:The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller Source: The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller
“What, after all, is the narrative of the American Dream? It was a discourse formulated between the 1880s and the 1920s in the United States during the great waves of migration and expansion and reforms of the Progressive Era.” StatesDreamUnitedUnited StatesWaveReformErasNarrativeProgressiveAmerican DreamExpansionDiscourseMigration Author:Naomi Wolf
“We talk about the American Dream, and want to tell the world about the American Dream, but what is that Dream, in most cases, but the dream of material things? I sometimes think that the United States for this reason is the greatest failure the world has ever seen.” ThinkingWorldWantSometimesStatesReasonDreamUnitedCasesUnited StatesMaterialsAmerican DreamMaterial Things Book:Conversations with Eugene O'Neill Source: Conversations with Eugene O'Neill