Christine Gregoire Quotes

Having set one's family in consonance with the community, he should make his family prosperous to ensure the prosperity of the community.

Our country was built upon the idea that if you work hard and play by the rules, you can achieve the 'American dream' and create a better future for your children.

My vision is to give the people of Iowa a place to call home that unleashes opportunity at every turn.

Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children.

The fabric of North Carolina and what makes our state so special is our families and our common desire for a brighter future for our children. No matter what your family looks like, we all want the same thing for our families - happiness, health, prosperity, a bright future for our children and grandchildren.

In my experience, all Americans - Republicans, Democrats, and everyone in between - want roughly the same thing: an assurance that if they work hard, they can create a better life for themselves and their families. They want to feel safe in their communities and secure in their future.

Conservatives don't love business for some abstract reason. We love it because of what it offers our children. Hope.

The promise of American opportunity and prosperity means something different to each of us. What we each envision varies in terms of wants and needs, and aspirations can change over time. But we all want to see our children have more opportunities than we had.

It's no secret that my family was very, very poor, and I don't want that for my life or my children's life certainly. But some might say I could relax a bit more and know that that's not going to happen to me. I'm not going to end up in a car.

I am but a generation removed from poverty and despair. Where would I be today if there had never been an America? What kind of lives or future would my children have if this was not a land of opportunity?

In America today, a young person needs more education after high school just to have a chance to make it in the middle class. Not a guarantee, just a chance to make it.

What its children become, that will the community become.

My presence here is one additional bit of evidence that the American dream need not be deferred.

In a thriving economy, birth need not be destiny.

The health of a nation is not just about its consumption expenditures …. one of the things that makes America such a great nation, and why so many people aspire to this American ideal of middle-class security, is that it's about more than that. It's about more than how much you can purchase with the dollar. It's about this feeling of security and about being able to give your kids a better life than you had. And that is really the foundation—one of the major founding principles of our country

The upwardly mobile American is becoming a statistical oddity..

Most Americans seem to be stuck in the economic strata to which they were born.

For income growth to occur in a society, a large fraction of people must experience changes in the possible lives they imagine for themselves and their children, and these new visions of possible futures must have enough force to lead them to change the way they behave.

Confidence in the future -- Hope -- gives power to individuals and communities. It is that which enables the poor man to become rich, and the character of all legislative action is to be judged by its greater or lesser tendency to produce this effect.

Our parents’ incomes play a larger role in our personal economic fortunes than is true for other peer countries.

The American Dream

You’re twice as likely to realize the American Dream if you’re growing up in Canada rather than the U.S.

With patience, persistence, and partnership, we can create economic opportunity for every person willing to work hard for it.

I want to see my family prosper, see my kids grow old.

All of our sons and daughters ought to have the same opportunity to experience the joy and stability of marriage.