Bear Bryant Quotes

Obama is the splendid fruit of a meritocracy.

I was a firm believer that every cricketer needs to get a fair chance.

Everyone deserves the opportunity to fight for the part they want.

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

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimately my master.

We live in the kind of society where, in almost all cases, hard work is rewarded.

I'm motivated by creating a level playing field for the world so that the weak have a chance.

There's place and means for every man alive.

Unless the great majority of Americans not only have, but believe they have, a fair chance, the better American future will be dangerously compromised.

It's not like I'm looking for a blonde or a brunette, light-skinned or dark-skinned. I feel like I give any girl a fighting chance.

Accomplishments have no color.

The America that I think most Americans would want, most economists on the right or left would want, is one in which a smart, ambitious, hardworking person without a huge amount of resources has a pretty good shot, in the end, of beating out a less smart, less ambitious, less hardworking rich person.

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.

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.

We're Americans. We celebrate success. We just don't want the game to be rigged.

Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.

We are hopeful about the opportunities ahead, and stand ready to join this President in an open and honest dialogue about improving the state of our union for all Americans not the select few.

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

I stand for the square deal.... I mean not merely that I stand for fair play under the present rules of the game, but I stand for having those rules changed so as to work for a more substantial equality of opportunity and reward.

Elect me for what I am, not for what I was born.

It is in order that each one of you, through this free government which we have enjoyed, have an open field and a fair chance for your industry, enterprise and intelligence.... It is for this the struggle should be maintained.

In America, opportunity and equality are not a zero-sum game

The supreme test of a democracy is the measure of equality of opportunity that it affords to its citizens to rise to the highest point of authority and position.

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions — it only guarantees equality of opportunity.

In a country where there is no privileged class, genius and industry may attain the highest honors.