Age Quote by Tom Brokaw

I know that some poor immigrants from that era had unrealistic expectations and were disappointed, but I don't think my grandparents were disappointed at…

— Samuel Alito

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

— Rand Paul

America had been a boom-and-bust economy going into the Great Depression - just over and over and over, fortunes were wiped out, ordinary families…

— Elizabeth Warren

“American era is ending in part because a powerful group of Americans wants it to end. The American dream is shrinking because some of…

— Dinesh D'Souza

On both sides of my family, my grandparents grew up in total poverty and came to California during the Great Depression. The only way…

— Katie Hill

My parents' story is a great example of the American dream. Their struggles, their hard work for a better family... it inspires - that…

— Mikey Garcia

Nostalgia wouldn't begin to capture your sense of loss, ... The Way We Really Are Coming to Terms With America's Changing Families.

— Stephanie Coontz

The American Dream may be slipping away. We have overcome such challenges before. To recover the Dream requires knowing where it came from, how…

— Jon Meacham

I've lived the American Dream, but, sadly, for too many, the American Dream is fading.

— Cathy McMorris Rodgers

For a good part of my childhood, we were super poor and lived in government housing. I don't characterize the American dream as being…

— Hong Chau

What, after all, is the narrative of 'the American Dream?' It was a discourse formulated between the 1880s and the 1920s in the United…

— Naomi Wolf

I think a lot of people's memories of the '90s are nostalgic. The economy was pretty strong, there was good TV and movies, yet…

— Steve Kornacki