Robert Kennedy Quotes

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

America is nation of people striving to make life better for themselves and for their families.

I feel that The American Dream is this fallacy that you come to the United States and win lotto. That's a disservice to The American Dream because the American Dream is worth striving for. And it's not easy.

American opportunity, the treasure no thief could touch … It was the one thing he [her father] was able to promise us when he sent for us; surer, safer than bread or shelter.

The American Dream

I have lived the American Dream.

My parents didn't get to have a dream. Their dream was to live in a country where their kids would have choice.

The American dream means that you have the chance to work hard, get an education and do great things for yourself, for your kids. The great thing in American is it doesn't matter what your last name is, doesn't matter if you're wealthy.

The American dream has now morphed into an expectation. And if it isn't provided, or if it doesn't happen, then people feel cheated.

For over two centuries, Americans have grown up in a society that rewards hard work, protects innovation, and allows its citizens to constantly break new barriers. The key element to this success rests on freedom and the ability of individuals to strive toward achieving their dreams and making their children's futures better than their own.

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

I expect if you are going to come out of the shadows, then you're going to want to have some type of hope in the future that you're going to improve your life and, yes, accomplish that American Dream.

I couldn't achieve the American dream in Japan.

Abe Ribicoff believes in that American dream. I believe it from the bottom of my heart, and your sons and daughters, too, can have the American dream come true.

My great-grandfather, like many, came to this country in search of the American dream.

The American dream is under assault.

The Hispanic community understands the American Dream and have not forgotten what they were promised - that in the U.S., a free market system, allows us all to succeed economically, achieve stability and security for your family and leave your children better off than yourselves.

Everyone must have a shot at the American Dream.

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.

The American dream is not dead. It is gasping for breath, but it is not dead.

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.

A simple way to take measure of a country is to look at how many want in ... and how many want out.

... there has been also the American dream, that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for every man, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement.

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

I grew up with a front row seat to the American dream.