Rafael Cruz Quotes

The great thing about America is that you can come from the worst circumstances and become something remarkable.

The American Dream is simple: it's the unwavering belief that anybody - you, me, your friends, your neighbors, grandma Verna - can become exceedingly successful, and all it takes is the right amount of work, ingenuity, and determination.

I believe in the American Dream because I have lived the American Dream.

The American dream is more about opportunity than anything else.

I am the American Dream. I am the epitome of what the American Dream basically said. It said you could come from anywhere and be anything you want in this country. That's exactly what I've done.

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

Everyone must have a shot at the American Dream.

The American Dream

I had come to college believing in a story that if you worked hard, the American dream was reachable.

The American dream has always been about chasing opportunity and pursuing a brighter future for ourselves and our children.

I am the American Dream.

The American dream is you come here, you believe in democracy, you believe in the Constitution, you work hard, you can make it.

My story is the American Dream, a hundred percent.

The American Dream means any person can achieve prosperity through hard work and ingenuity because there are no inherent barriers in our society.

This country is based on a simple bargain, and that bargain is if you work hard, you get to get ahead.

When they say America is the land of opportunity, it's true. If you work hard, people appreciate you.

We are still a country where hard work and perseverance can earn you a better life... Yet we are rightfully troubled that many of our people are still caught in what seems to be a pervasive, unending financial struggle... every American deserves an equal opportunity to achieve success.

Everything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America.

I am living proof that the American dream still exists. It is still alive and well. There is only one trick, you have to be willing to roll up your sleeves and work very, very hard.

I've absolutely lived the American dream.

I felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when growing up middle-class in America meant there would be jobs for my parents, good schools for me to prepare myself for a career, and, if I worked hard and played by the rules, a chance for me to do anything I wanted.

I'm living the American dream.

I've lived the American dream.

I'm very pro-American - my entire family escaped poverty in Italy because they rightly believed in the American dream.

It would be hard to find a more compelling example of the American dream than Alberto Gonzales.