"Let's not put anybody down. Instead, let's lift each other up. Let's bring out the absolute best from our fellow Americans - every single one of them from every single community."
Beto O'Rourke
Delivered: February 4, 2020
"I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream."
Bruce Springsteen
Delivered: February 14, 2020
"To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race."
Calvin Coolidge
Delivered: February 28, 2020
"Martin Luther King, Jr. didn't carry just a piece of cloth to symbolize his belief in racial equality; he carried the American flag."
Adrian Cronauer
Delivered: February 29, 2020
"The American Dream I believe in is one that provides anyone willing to work hard enough with the opportunity to succeed."
Tammy Duckworth
Delivered: February 16, 2020
"The American dream is dead for the majority of America."
Suze Orman
Delivered: February 10, 2020
"War is God's way of teaching Americans geography."
Ambrose Bierce
Delivered: February 12, 2020
"No person can maximize the American Dream on the minimum wage."
Benjamin Todd Jealous
Delivered: February 25, 2020
"During the Great Depression, African Americans were faced with problems that were not unlike those experienced by the most disadvantaged groups in society. The Great Depression had a leveling effect, and all groups really experienced hard times: poor whites, poor blacks."
William Julius Wilson
Delivered: February 27, 2020
"The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam."
J. G. Ballard
Delivered: February 7, 2020
"An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men."
Charles Darwin
Delivered: February 5, 2020
"Stopping illegal immigration would mean that wages would have to rise to a level where Americans would want the jobs currently taken by illegal aliens."
Thomas Sowell
Delivered: February 23, 2020
"You call my candidate a horse thief, and I call yours a lunatic, and we both of us know it's just till election day. It's an American custom, like eating corn on the cob. And, afterwards, we settle down quite peaceably and agree we've got a pretty good country - until next election."
Stephen Vincent Benet
Delivered: March 1, 2020
"The American dream comes from opportunity. The opportunity comes from our founding principles, our core values that's held together and protected by the Constitution. Those ideas are neither Republican, Democrat, conservative, liberal, white, or black. Those are American ideologies."
Ted Yoho
Delivered: February 3, 2020
"The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism."
Henry A. Wallace
Delivered: February 21, 2020
"There's not an American in this country free until every one of us is free."
Jackie Robinson
Delivered: February 8, 2020
"Only in America can someone start with nothing and achieve the American Dream. That's the greatness of this country."
Rafael Cruz
Delivered: February 11, 2020
"As you know, I'm an immigrant. I came over here as an immigrant, and what gave me the opportunities, what made me to be here today, is the open arms of Americans. I have been received. I have been adopted by America."
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Delivered: February 20, 2020
"I've been living the American Dream for over 25 years - just being able to do what I do, be creative, and make money out of it. It's incredible."
Dr. Dre
Delivered: February 18, 2020
"Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves."
Albert Einstein
Delivered: February 19, 2020
"We've become, now, an oligarchy instead of a democracy. I think that's been the worst damage to the basic moral and ethical standards to the American political system that I've ever seen in my life."
Jimmy Carter
Delivered: February 24, 2020
"Black history is American history."
Morgan Freeman
Delivered: February 17, 2020
"It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe."
Henry James
Delivered: February 26, 2020
"My Democratic friends just can't accept the fact that the American people chose Donald Trump to be president - it's called democracy. My advice to them, and I say this gently: Fill out a 'Hurt Feelings Report' and let's move on."
John Kennedy
Delivered: February 2, 2020
"I believe in an America where millions of Americans believe in an America that's the America millions of Americans believe in. That's the America I love."
Mitt Romney
Delivered: February 13, 2020
"I was saving the name of 'Geisel' for the Great American Novel."
Dr. Seuss
Delivered: February 6, 2020
"Ever since the Industrial Revolution, investments in science and technology have proved to be reliable engines of economic growth. If homegrown interest in those fields is not regenerated soon, the comfortable lifestyle to which Americans have become accustomed will draw to a rapid close."
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Delivered: February 9, 2020
"Once vigorous measures appear to be the only means left of bringing the Americans to a due submission to the mother country, the colonies will submit."
George III of the United Kingdom
Delivered: February 15, 2020
"My natural accent is American. I chose to speak with a U.K. accent when I was about to enter the final year at drama school in London. I was going to try to find a way to stay in the U.K. after I finished college and could not imagine trying to live and get work there with an American accent."
Jennifer Ehle
Delivered: February 22, 2020