"The truth is sometimes a hard pill to swallow. It sometimes causes us difficulties at home and abroad. It is sometimes used by our enemies in attempts to hurt us. But the American people are entitled to it, nonetheless."
John McCain
Delivered: March 4, 2020
"People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error."
Florence King
Delivered: March 14, 2020
"All the problems we face in the United States today can be traced to an unenlightened immigration policy on the part of the American Indian."
Pat Paulsen
Delivered: March 22, 2020
"All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn."
Ernest Hemingway
Delivered: March 25, 2020
"The faith that anyone could move from rags to riches - with enough guts and gumption, hard work and nose to the grindstone - was once at the core of the American Dream."
Robert Reich
Delivered: March 19, 2020
"The Supreme Court, of course, has the responsibility of ensuring that our government never oversteps its proper bounds or violates the rights of individuals. But the Court must also recognize the limits on itself and respect the choices made by the American people."
Elena Kagan
Delivered: March 27, 2020
"I was a poor kid. I came from nothing. We didn't have any money; a lot of times we didn't have any food, and now, all of a sudden, I'm a superhero in a Marvel movie? Talk about the American dream, man - I'm living it."
Dave Bautista
Delivered: March 6, 2020
"How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it."
Henry David Thoreau
Delivered: March 18, 2020
"The American Dream is independence and being able to create that dream for yourself."
Marsha Blackburn
Delivered: March 11, 2020
"I used to look like an American flag. The Padre uniform makes me look like a taco. Actually, the transition has been great. I've made 25 new friends, and I never thought I wanted to be anything other than a Dodger, but this is fun."
Steve Garvey
Delivered: March 23, 2020
"I would almost certainly vote for Trump if I was American."
Jacob Rees-Mogg
Delivered: March 29, 2020
"Americans never quit."
Douglas MacArthur
Delivered: March 13, 2020
"'Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream' is an intentionally angry film. How could it not be when the chance of an infant dying is five times greater on the Bronx Park Avenue than on Manhattan's Park Avenue just across the Harlem River?"
Alex Gibney
Delivered: March 2, 2020
"Americans believe cotton is best, but we've invented new fabrics that will change your lifestyle."
Tadashi Yanai
Delivered: March 20, 2020
"Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so."
Gore Vidal
Delivered: March 3, 2020
"At a time when the Socialist Democrats and the Jihad Squad are supporting terrorist Hamas, and their supporters are attacking Jewish people on the streets of America, it's never been more important than now to stand up against forced vaccinations and mask mandates that the left is using to discriminate against Americans who refuse to comply."
Marjorie Taylor Greene
Delivered: March 10, 2020
"To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to 'be happy.' But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to 'be happy.'"
Viktor E. Frankl
Delivered: March 28, 2020
"To realize the American dream, the most important thing to understand is that it belongs to everybody. It's a human dream. If you understand this and work very hard, it is possible."
Cristina Saralegui
Delivered: March 30, 2020
"No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company."
Alan Turing
Delivered: April 1, 2020
"We need to remain a nation that doesn't just welcome but that celebrates legal immigrants who come here seeking to pursue the American Dream."
Ted Cruz
Delivered: March 5, 2020
"Standing as I do, with my hand upon this staff, and under the folds of the American flag, I ask you to stand by me so long as I stand by it."
Abraham Lincoln
Delivered: March 7, 2020
"The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I am not a Virginian but an American."
Patrick Henry
Delivered: March 9, 2020
"Inflation is taxation and taxation is theft that takes more money out of hard-working Americans' pocket books."
Lauren Boebert
Delivered: March 17, 2020
"Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them."
Lily Tomlin
Delivered: March 21, 2020
"To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom."
Maya Lin
Delivered: March 8, 2020
"Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object."
Laurence J. Peter
Delivered: March 15, 2020
"I think the most important factor in getting out of the recession actually is just the regenerative capacity of - of American capitalism."
Warren Buffett
Delivered: March 24, 2020
"The American Dream is a phrase we'll have to wrestle with all of our lives. It means a lot of things to different people. I think we're redefining it now."
Rita Dove
Delivered: March 26, 2020
"The American Dream is still alive out there, and hard work will get you there. You don't necessarily need to have an Ivy League education or to have millions of dollars startup money. It can be done with an idea, hard work and determination."
Bill Rancic
Delivered: March 31, 2020
"It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them of human dignity, to reduce them to objects of pity. This has never been clearer than in the view of Africa from the American media, in which we are shown poverty and conflicts without any context."
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Delivered: March 12, 2020
"No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now."
Richard M. Nixon
Delivered: March 16, 2020