Michael Nutter Quotes

We must give Oklahoma families the opportunity to thrive and prosper. We must give all Oklahomans the tools necessary to pursue the American dream. And then, we must get out of the way.

I love working in America!

I am running for president to help create a better future. A future where everyone who wants a job can find one. Where no senior fears for the security of their retirement. An America where every parent knows that their child will get an education that leads them to a good job and a bright horizon.

When our forbears - yours and mine - came to America, they came because this country promised them something. It promised them an opportunity, nourished by education, not merely to grind for a bare living, but to strive for a good life.

Ensuring that our children have more and better opportunities is the essence of the American dream.

Everyone wants to work in America. Maybe not blockbusters or Terminator, but to have the choice.

Think about it: Reducing crime and poverty and ensuring that we have an educated, stable work force has a direct effect on you and me and the future of our country.

We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America.

Economic growth is necessary to keep the promise - enormously important to individual Americans - that each generation will have the opportunity to become more prosperous than the preceding one, the popular term for which is 'the American dream.'

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.

We all should be proud of the United States. For those of us that came from the Dominican, we've been able to come here, work, make money and become somebody in our lives. We've gotten a huge opportunity from the U.S.

People want development. Not everyone knows what it means. Same as jobs. Not everyone knows what a job is, but people want jobs.

We have never enjoyed a piece of the great American dream.

The native American, like the alien immigrant, conceives the better future which awaits himself and other men in America as fundamentally a future in which economic prosperity will be still more abundant and still more accessible than it has yet been either here or abroad.

We have no intention of downsizing the American Dream.

America just works better when more people have a chance to live their dreams

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

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.

I want everybody in Florida to live the American dream.

America is still the land of opportunity, and hard work is still a pathway to success.

Government doesn't do much for the new Americans. The assumption is that they'll take care of themselves if they work hard enough.

I have lived the American Dream.

The U.S. is where I was given the greatest opportunity to turn my life from a very nice one to an exceptional one.

I talk about jobs. I talk about education. I talk about making government work for people. That's really the dinner-table issues that I hear from Michiganders in every part of our state.

Labor, and the ability to earn one's own way, is central to dignity and, indeed, to vocation. Christians should seek to broaden the private economy to include more individuals in remunerative labor.