I'm committed to securing for all the children in America an equal chance to learn and to dream and to excel.

Every person deserves the opportunity to succeed and contribute to society.

We must work towards a future where every person has the opportunity to thrive.

A fair society is one where every person has the opportunity to succeed.

We must strive to create a society where everyone has the opportunity to succeed.

I want every American, whatever his background, every child, to have a chance to go to the top, ceiling unlimited.

Let a man or woman, regardless of his background, go as high as he can. That is the way to build a great economy in America.

Small, free, independent enterprise is the heritage of our past and the lifeblood of our future, providing each of our citizens with life's most prized gift: opportunity.

The period which lies ahead is likely to be one of rapid change, which will offer the free world both opportunity and challenge on an unprecedented scale.

I believe that this ill-timed measure should be rejected, and that our efforts should be directed toward the positive tasks and the great opportunities for achieving a real peace that lie before us.

I say to you, my friends, this is a time when America has the opportunity, as it approaches its 200th birthday, not only to have a new era of prosperity without war and without inflation, but a new era of freedom and justice and opportunity such as we have never had before.

America was founded as the land of the open door.

The criminal, too, is an individual who must be rehabilitated and given the opportunity for a truly constructive life.

You represent a great idea: the idea of international educational opportunity.

The opportunity is here.

Any boy born in America has a chance to grow up and be President.

As long as any American is denied the chance to fully develop and to use his talents, to become all that he can be, then every American is less than he should be.

If our magnificent young men can die for freedom in a foreign land, how can we refuse any of them a full measure of freedom and opportunity here at home?