American Dream Nightmare Quotes

#1. In this funny debut, flashy Filipino fashion designer Boy Hernandez sees his American dream become a nightmare when he's ensnared in a terrorist plot and shipped to Guantanamo. Gilvarry nails the couture scene, but Boy's rough journey from Manolo to Gitmo is no joke.

Andrew Abrahams

#2. A familiar question for Australians is how much we are a product of our circumstances, and how much we are what we have made ourselves to be. In truth, by the act of migration the country was made: by that voluntary act and by the emigrants' ambitions it was built.

Paul Keating

#3. Turn over the rudder in God's name, and sail with the wind heaven sends us.

Catherine Of Siena

#4. I'm the only person who has ever found the right way to build an autobiography.

Mark Twain

#5. These days the American dream of home ownership has turned into a nightmare for millions of families. They wake every day to the reality of a horrible decline in the value of the home that has meant so much to them.

Mortimer Zuckerman

#6. If there is any jarring at all in my photographs, it's because we are so used to ingesting pictures of everywhere looking beautiful.

Martin Parr

#7. Man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer

Otto Von Bismarck

#8. The house burned in the fire. Her house. Her prison of lies and of denial. Her American dream turned nightmare."~Unbreakable Heart

Kimberly Kinrade

#9. I'm not the American Nightmare. I am the American Dream!

Donald Freed

#10. College is part of the American dream. It shouldn't be part of a financial nightmare for families.

Barbara Mikulski

#11. This country isn't working for working people. It's working only for people at the top. That's not the American dream. That's the American nightmare.

Elizabeth Warren

#12. I don't think it should be a big deal who you love.

Taylor Swift

#13. An apocryphal story recounts the dilhemma of a man during the Civil War who could not decide whether to join the Confederate or Union forces. Finally he put on a gray coat and blue pants, and both sides shot him.

John Frohnmayer

#14. I see America through the eyes of the victim. I don't see any American dream--I see an American nightmare.

Malcolm X

#15. I've not only pursued the American dream, I've achieved it. I suppose we could say the last few years, I've also achieved the American nightmare.

Kenneth Lay

#16. People say I'm America's worst nightmare. I say I'm the American dream.

Latrell Sprewell

#17. Why has the blowjob had a dual existence for so long, sometimes subterranean and sometimes flaunted, before bursting into plain view as the specifically American sex act?

Christopher Hitchens

#18. For many, the American dream has become a nightmare.

Bernie Sanders

#19. I feel that I am a citizen of the American dream and that the revolutionary struggle of which I am a part is a struggle against the American nightmare.

Eldridge Cleaver

#20. Hillary Clinton, President Obama, they're trying to turn the American dream into the European nightmare. We need to rescue the country from socialism.

Bobby Jindal

#21. Under President Obama and Secretary Clinton, they're working hard to change the American dream into the European nightmare. They do celebrate more dependence on the government.

Bobby Jindal

#22. Love has been stronger than the air you breathe.

Jon Jones