"Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history."
Maya Angelou
Delivered: January 20, 2020
"There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress."
Mark Twain
Delivered: January 6, 2020
"For many, the American dream has become a nightmare."
Bernie Sanders
Delivered: January 12, 2020
"Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public."
H. L. Mencken
Delivered: January 9, 2020
"The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make the rest of us wonder at the possibility that we might be missing something."
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Delivered: January 10, 2020
"An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed."
A. J. Liebling
Delivered: January 11, 2020
"November is Native American Heritage month, and a good time to honor the legacy of our ancestors, but every day we should stop to think about our country's beginning and that the United States would not exist if not for a great deal of sacrifice, blood, and tears by Indian Tribes across the country."
Deb Haaland
Delivered: January 22, 2020
"My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too."
Barack Obama
Delivered: January 7, 2020
"We have this American president, Obama, born of an African father, who is saying we will not give you aid if you don't embrace homosexuality. We ask, was he born out of homosexuality? We need continuity in our race, and that comes from the woman, and no to homosexuality."
Robert Mugabe
Delivered: January 26, 2020
"The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves."
George Washington
Delivered: January 25, 2020
"Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom."
Alexis de Tocqueville
Delivered: January 23, 2020
"We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions."
Ronald Reagan
Delivered: January 3, 2020
"If the world's a veil of tears, Smile till rainbows span it."
Lucy Larcom
Delivered: January 5, 2020
"The road to success is not easy to navigate, but with hard work, drive and passion, it's possible to achieve the American dream."
Tommy Hilfiger
Delivered: January 8, 2020
"In the end, the American dream is not a sprint, or even a marathon, but a relay. Our families don't always cross the finish line in the span of one generation. But each generation passes on to the next the fruits of their labor."
Julian Castro
Delivered: January 18, 2020
"The American Dream is a term that is often used but also often misunderstood. It isn't really about becoming rich or famous. It is about things much simpler and more fundamental than that."
Marco Rubio
Delivered: January 21, 2020
"Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve."
George W. Bush
Delivered: January 31, 2020
"Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth."
Will Rogers
Delivered: January 19, 2020
"The American dream belongs to all of us."
Kamala Harris
Delivered: January 24, 2020
"We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep."
Queen Elizabeth II
Delivered: January 28, 2020
"Popularity makes no law invulnerable to invalidation. Americans accept judicial supervision of their democracy - judicial review of popular but possibly unconstitutional statutes - because they know that if the Constitution is truly to constitute the nation, it must trump some majority preferences."
George Will
Delivered: January 17, 2020
"I am overwhelmed with gratitude, and my heart is full. 'American Sniper' has broken records, which follows such an honest path of Chris's life."
Taya Kyle
Delivered: January 29, 2020
"The negative side of the American Dream comes when people pursue success at any cost, which in turn destroys the vision and the dream."
Azar Nafisi
Delivered: February 1, 2020
"I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon clubs and White American societies, as far as the Negro is concerned, as better friends of the race than all other groups of hypocritical whites put together."
Marcus Garvey
Delivered: January 14, 2020
"America is not just a country, it's an idea, and real Americans are getting busy."
Bono
Delivered: January 13, 2020
"Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people."
Joe Biden
Delivered: January 15, 2020
"Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Delivered: January 4, 2020
"I gave my heart to the Americans and thought of nothing else but raising my banner and adding my colors to theirs."
Marquis de Lafayette
Delivered: January 16, 2020
"We can have no '50-50' allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all."
Theodore Roosevelt
Delivered: January 27, 2020
"Right now, I'm as single as a slice of American cheese."
Nick Cannon
Delivered: January 30, 2020