Those born in the poorest quarter of American society have an 8% chance of earning a college degree. Those born in the wealthiest quarter of American society have a 75% chance of earning a college degree.
O.K., if the desire to knock America off its pedestal, to redistribute American income to other countries, to shrink America's footprint in the world, makes you anti-American, then Obama is in fact anti-American.
How fantastic that the American ingenuity of NASA scientists got us to Mars. It makes me proud to be an American. I can't get enough of these images from when the probe touched down. These scientists are American heroes.
Of course, preserving the American dream has always meant creating opportunity for the most recently arrived Americans - those who have come here from other parts of the globe to work hard and build a new, better life.
Though I don't have any serious argument with Neil Gaiman's 'American Gods', I believe that Americans cease to be Europeans - the land makes them become Americans. You see it happening all the time when you travel around America.
Lou Chambers: It's the American Dream in a goddamn gym bag! Hank Mitchell: You work for the American Dream. You don't steal it. Lou Chambers: Then this is even better.
In Malaysia, where Western culture was extremely influential, I'd grown up listening to Elvis and the Beatles and watching American movies. People wanted to be like Americans. In contrast, when I got here, I saw prosperous middle-class American colle...
I stand before you tonight as a young American, a proud American, of a generation born as the Cold War receded, shaped by the tragedy of 9/11, connected by the digital revolution and determined to re-elect the man who will make the 21st century anoth...
These are the times that try men's souls.
We are going to have the best educated American people in the world.
I'm surprised and disappointed in American culture.
The American dream belongs to all of us.
I've absolutely lived the American dream.
I look at 'Breaking Bad' as a show about the American family.
We are telling the American people to have patience, courage, resolve and determination.
The Declaration of Independence is a sacred part of American history.
A great American city is fighting for its life.
The American people fear there is some gouging going on.
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
I love the American way of life.
American workers are first rate.
