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21 " Since when did the American Dream become the American Guarantee? "
22 " Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. "
23 " I define the American dream as the ability to imagine a way that you want your life to turn out, and have a reasonable hope that you can achieve that. "
24 " We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans. "
25 " I think the American Dream says that anything can happen if you work hard enough at it and are persistent, and have some ability. The sky is the limit to what you can build, and what can happen to you and your family. "
26 " Of course, preserving the American dream has always meant creating opportunity for the most recently arrived Americans - those who have come here from other parts of the globe to work hard and build a new, better life. "
27 " Your grandparents came of age in the Great Depression, when everyday life was about deprivation and sacrifice, when the economic conditions of the time were so grave and so unrelenting it would have been easy enough for the American dream to fade away. "
28 " I don't believe that the American dream should be reserved for those who are born into the elite or somehow have been given an advantage over others. My growing-up experience is probably the most important thing that guides my priorities and my work today. "
29 " I think the most important thing that I think everyone in America must have is belief that wherever they live, whatever station they have in life, that the American dream is alive and well. I think the fracturing of trust and confidence is in the American dream. "
30 " I've been living the American Dream for over 25 years - just being able to do what I do, be creative, and make money out of it. It's incredible. "
31 " I think the American Dream used to be achieving one's goals in your field of choice - and from that, all other things would follow. Now, I think the dream has morphed into the pursuit of money: Accumulate enough of it, and the rest will follow. "
32 " A basic element of the American dream is equal access to education as the lubricant of social and economic mobility. "
33 " The negative side of the American Dream comes when people pursue success at any cost, which in turn destroys the vision and the dream. "
34 " Americans have so far put up with inequality because they felt they could change their status. They didn't mind others being rich, as long as they had a path to move up as well. The American Dream is all about social mobility in a sense - the idea that anyone can make it. "
