Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Quotes

This is what America is about when it comes to understanding that it is equal opportunity versus equal achievement. Each and every one of us has the opportunity for greatness in this country.

It doesn't matter where you're from. You can be from the hood or the suburbs. You can be poor with no education or a college graduate. No matter your background, you can win.

The American dream, to me, means having the opportunity to achieve, because I don't think you should be guaranteed anything other than opportunity.

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

I rejected the notion that my race or sex would bar my success in life.

It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. We will go where the internal drive carries us like everybody else. It is up to the individual.

Anything is possible for anyone in America.

I am not a product of privilege, I am a product of opportunity

The American Dream

There are few things that define us as a country more distinctly than the idea of the American Dream. The idea that anyone can make it here through hard work and dedication. And that dream rests on giving people here a fair shot.

I've been lucky to be born in Spain to a good family. But some team-mates reached the same position from a tough background. Football is equal, and it doesn't matter where you come from.

They don't call it the Italian Dream or the English Dream. In America, there is the American Dream. It was the first place to give people of any social background their dream. You can achieve anything.

No matter where you came from, you can be inspired.

A child's course in life should be determined not by the zip code she's born in, but by the strength of her work ethic and the scope of her dreams.

Fairness is not the end result, it's the opportunity. And everybody in America today has the opportunity to get ahead.

Women need opportunity and encouragement. If a girl can climb mountains, she can do anything positive within her field of work.

Now, as a nation, we don't promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That's an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.

The American Dream is about freedom.

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

You have to give kids from ordinary families a ladder. You have to show them there's a way out.

The American dream is about freedom.

Let the path be open to talent.

People ask how can a Jewish kid from the Bronx do preppy clothes? Does it have to do with class and money? It has to do with dreams.

I want anyone who believes in life, liberty, pursuit of happiness to succeed. And I want any force, any person, any element of an overarching Big Government that would stop your success, I want that organization, that element or that person to fail. I want you to succeed.

I believe in the American Dream, because I've lived it.