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The American Dream may be slipping away. We have overcome such challenges before. To recover the Dream requires knowing where it came from, how it lasted so long and why it matters so much.

I define the American dream as the ability to imagine a way that you want your life to turn out, and have a reasonable hope that you can achieve that.

For many, the American dream has become a nightmare.

The American Dream is a phrase we'll have to wrestle with all of our lives. It means a lot of things to different people. I think we're redefining it now.

To realize the American dream, the most important thing to understand is that it belongs to everybody. It's a human dream. If you understand this and work very hard, it is possible.

American dreams are strongest in the hearts of those who have seen America only in their dreams.

The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.

Everyone must have a shot at the American Dream.

You cannot give up on the American dream. We cannot allow our fears and our disappointments to lead us into silence and into inaction.

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