American Nightmare Quotes

#1. 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

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

Malcolm X

#3. 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

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

Donald Freed

#5. If one sees the American Nightmare first and Chainsaw after that, you'll see it in a different kind of light.

Tobe Hooper

#6. 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

#7. Finance, like time, devours its own children.

Honore De Balzac

#8. 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

#9. If you can't fix what went wrong, then fix what you can make right.

Brigid Kemmerer

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

Kimberly Kinrade

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

Barbara Mikulski

#12. The act of praying is the very highest energy of which the human mind is capable; praying, that is, with the total concentration of the faculties. The great mass of worldly men and of learned men are absolutely incapable of prayer.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#13. 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

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

Latrell Sprewell

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

Bernie Sanders

#16. I wish it were simply a nightmare, but I think that any reasonable person watching American politics would come to the conclusion that a second Bush administration would in fact incorporate a more radicalized version of what we've seen in the first administration.

Robert Reich

#17. She was his world now, and he'd do what he could to protect it. No matter the cost.

Carrie Ann Ryan

#18. When you have no spirit to seize the day, find it behind the music, between the flowing leaves, beneath the sun rays, and just within yourself. Talk to yourself, be the best friend for yourself, and do not hesitate to ask God help

Maria Magdalena

#19. When you cannot see where you are going, when you do not know your final destination, every hour is its own eternity.

Tess Gerritsen

#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. The great advantage in noble parentage is that enables one to endure poverty more easily.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#22. 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

#23. Barack Obama's discovering what a nightmare dealing with hostage problems is - a discovery previously made by Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, i don't see a lot of room for change in American policy.

Bruce Riedel

#24. Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.

Florence King

#25. My earliest memories of horror are 'Friday the 13th Part 2,' John Carpenter's 'The Thing,' 'Halloween,' 'An American Werewolf in London,' and 'A Nightmare On Elm Street' ... and 'Hatchet' is so obviously inspired by those films that I may as well have made it in 1984.

Adam Green

#26. When I turn on the TV in Russia I see a general calmly claiming that our missiles are ahead of the latest American models by three five-year plans. It's a nightmare. We are creating a concept of the enemy, just as they did in the Soviet era. This is a giant step backward.

Vladimir Sorokin