Diminished Opportunities Quotes

The Democrats say that the United States has had its days in the sun, that our nation has passed its zenith. They expect you to tell your children that the American people no longer have the will to cope with their problems, that the future will be one of sacrifice and few opportunities. My fellow citizens, I utterly reject that view.

Even its children know that the South is in trouble.

Europe's younger generation has only experienced austerity.

I'm astonished at how readily a great many people I know, young people, have accepted a reduced economic prospect and limited freedoms in any substantial sense, and basically traded them for being able to screw around online.

I could have easily been a statistic. Growing up in Brooklyn, N.Y., it was easy - a little too easy - to get into trouble. Surrounded by poor schools, lack of resources, high unemployment rates, poverty, gangs and more, I watched as many of my peers fell victim to a vicious cycle of diminished opportunities and imprisonment.

For many, the American dream has become a nightmare.

When you direct a movie that makes no money whatsoever, there is no rush to your door for the next one.

If you do a bad role in a film, you may not get television offers in future.

For too many of our young people, that once-promised American dream has given way to an American debt burden and a bleak job market.

With unemployment still abysmally high, the Obama economy is crushing Hispanics' dreams for their children to live a better life.

There is something wrong when we had more bankruptcies last year than college graduates.

The millennial generation in the US is the first that has reduced expectations from those of their parents. And I think there is something decadent and declinist about that.

This generation has given up on growth. They're just hoping for survival.

Life is tougher for Americans - especially for those who voted by the highest percentages for President Obama's promise of hope and change.

Fame is also won at the expense of others. Even the well-deserved honors of the scientist or man of learning are unfair to many persons of equal achievements who get none. When one man gets a place in the sun, the others are put in a denser shade. From the point of view of the whole group there's no gain whatsoever, and perhaps a loss.

Your grandparents came of age in the Great Depression, when everyday life was about deprivation and sacrifice, when the economic conditions of the time were so grave and so unrelenting it would have been easy enough for the American dream to fade away.

Russia is in the advanced stages of poverty.