I was 26 when I invented the wrap dress. It was just a nothing little printed dress made out an jersey, and before I know it, I lived an American Dream making more than 25,000 dresses a week.

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.

The American Dream is independence and being able to create that dream for yourself.

Black Lightning, Jefferson Pierce, is the American dream.

Everybody in America started to define themselves by all these things they had around them. And all of a sudden it came tumbling down. So the old American dream has died, and that is a good thing.

No one will steal my son's American Dream.

I've lived the American dream. I was born and raised on the farm, first in my family to graduate from college. I spent 13 years working in our family business.

I have lived the American dream in every aspect, and now I hope to make a very big impact in helping the planet.

The American Dream - that's our folly. That's our folly. Look where we're ending up.

The American Dream is about freedom.

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.

If there is still an American dream, reading is one of the bootstraps by which we can all pull ourselves up.

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

Success is the American Dream. And that success is not something to be ashamed of, or to demonize.

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

The American dream, what we were taught was, grow up, own a car, own a house. I think that dream's completely changing. We were taught to keep up with the Joneses. Now we're sharing with the Joneses.

Every American deserves a shot at the American dream.

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

Are we a nation of guarantees or are we a nation of opportunities to achieve the American dream?

Cities can become the engines that fuel our nation's growth and prosperity, and they can be wide gateways for families to achieve their own American dream of prosperity.