"We Americans have no commission from God to police the world."
Benjamin Harrison
Delivered: May 21, 2020
"To be frank, it sometimes seems that the American idea of freedom has more to do with my freedom to do what I want than your freedom to do what you want. I think that, in Europe, we're probably better at understanding how to balance those competing claims, though not a lot."
Douglas Adams
Delivered: June 1, 2020
"A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil."
Grover Cleveland
Delivered: May 3, 2020
"The high probability is if American forces withdraw from Afghanistan and if no alternative international arrangement is made that then the historic contests between the regions and the sects will reappear, the Taliban will re-emerge, and a very complicated and maybe chaotic situation will develop."
Henry Kissinger
Delivered: May 26, 2020
"The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage."
Carl Bernstein
Delivered: May 4, 2020
"You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination."
Charles de Gaulle
Delivered: May 9, 2020
"Only Americans can hurt America."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Delivered: May 28, 2020
"I definitely feel closer to the feminine side of the human being than I do the male - or the American idea of what a male is supposed to be. Just watch a beer commercial and you'll see what I mean."
Kurt Cobain
Delivered: May 6, 2020
"When good Americans die they go to Paris."
Oscar Wilde
Delivered: May 18, 2020
"There is in every American, I think, something of the old Daniel Boone - who, when he could see the smoke from another chimney, felt himself too crowded and moved further out into the wilderness."
Hubert H. Humphrey
Delivered: May 19, 2020
"Am I a liberal or conservative? I'm neither. Like most Americans, I find politics very frustrating. Like most Americans, I'd like to hear from politicians the facts. That is what drives me."
Soledad O'Brien
Delivered: May 20, 2020
"Perhaps the great American Republic, whose interests lie in the Pacific and who has no hand in the spoliation of Africa, may someday dream of foreign possession."
Jose Rizal
Delivered: May 30, 2020
"Besides taking jobs from American workers, illegal immigration creates huge economic burdens on our health care system, our education system, our criminal justice system, our environment, our infrastructure and our public safety."
Jan C. Ting
Delivered: May 10, 2020
"As Trade Secretary I see the world is waiting. The Australians, the Americans, the Kiwis, the Japanese - they all want us to get Brexit done so that we can begin negotiations and forge new relationships that will open up new markets for British businesses, create jobs and attract new investment."
Liz Truss
Delivered: May 13, 2020
"If you are an American, you must allow all ideas to circulate freely in your community, not merely your own."
Kurt Vonnegut
Delivered: May 15, 2020
"Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us."
Stephen King
Delivered: May 24, 2020
"You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison."
Craig L. Thomas
Delivered: May 2, 2020
"On that terrible day, a nation became a neighborhood. All Americans became New Yorkers."
George Pataki
Delivered: May 5, 2020
"The problem is that everywhere the gas drilling industry goes, a trail of water contamination, air pollution, health concerns and betrayal of basic American civic and community values follows."
Josh Fox
Delivered: May 7, 2020
"The Great Migration can get forgotten if we don't pay attention or bear witness to it. It's part of my personal history and the history of millions of African Americans who left those oppressive conditions for better lives in the North. It's important to put that on the page."
Jacqueline Woodson
Delivered: May 14, 2020
"Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms."
James Madison
Delivered: May 17, 2020
"Voter fraud is a reality in American elections, but it is typical of the candidate to confuse anecdote with data and turn allegation into conspiracy."
Bret Stephens
Delivered: May 8, 2020
"My dad's from that generation like a lot of immigrants where he feels like if you come to this country, you pay this thing like the American dream tax: like you're going to endure some racism, and if it doesn't cost you your life, well hey, you lucked out. Pay it; there you go, Uncle Sam. I was born here, so I actually had the audacity of equality."
Hasan Minhaj
Delivered: May 22, 2020
"Medicare and Social Security have created the healthiest and most financially secure generation of senior citizens in American history."
Jim Walsh
Delivered: May 27, 2020
"All empires come to an end, and the American one is no exception."
Robert Kiyosaki
Delivered: May 12, 2020
"I love being American, and I love family. I love having a family, and I feel so blessed, and I feel like God gave me exactly what I wanted, so now I have to do the right thing in God's eyes also. Just follow what God wants me to do."
Kanye West
Delivered: May 25, 2020
"I'm just trying the American dream. To work here in the U.S., you have to commit and be here. For many years, it was back and forth, back and forth, and it didn't work. But I'm always open to working in Spanish."
Eugenio Derbez
Delivered: May 29, 2020
"As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people's struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism."
Angela Davis
Delivered: May 11, 2020
"If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen."
Barack Obama
Delivered: May 31, 2020
"When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - then all Americans are in peril."
Harry S Truman
Delivered: May 16, 2020
"I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game."
Walt Whitman
Delivered: May 23, 2020