2020 AUGUST

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"The federal government should only be flying the flag that represents all people, the American flag."

Marjorie Taylor Greene

Delivered: August 2, 2020

"It is every American's right to question any big event, especially when it's seized on to take the basic liberties of Americans."

Alex Jones

Delivered: August 6, 2020

"The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out."

Lance Morrow

Delivered: August 8, 2020

"Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians."

Charles Krauthammer

Delivered: August 5, 2020

"Tobacco exports should be expanded aggressively because Americans are smoking less."

Dan Quayle

Delivered: August 9, 2020

"Americans want grungy people, stabbing themselves in the head on stage. They get a bright bunch like us, with deodorant on, they don't get it."

Liam Gallagher

Delivered: August 11, 2020

"Historically Black Colleges and Universities, or HBCUs, have played an important role in enriching the lives of not just African Americans, but our entire country."

Ric Keller

Delivered: August 12, 2020

"I am a proud Italian American, raised by an Italian mother and Italian grandparents."

Tim Ryan

Delivered: August 15, 2020

"The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance."

Maya Angelou

Delivered: August 16, 2020

"Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education."

Paul Erdos

Delivered: August 3, 2020

"Segregation has never been a shadowy, impossible-to-pin-down conspiracy. It's been an American way of life."

Jason Whitlock

Delivered: August 19, 2020

"The Trail of Tears has a great deal of meaning for every person of American Indian ancestry, whether they are Cherokee or not. For me, it has always stood for what is best and worst about the history of the United States."

Joseph Bruchac

Delivered: August 24, 2020

"I greatly enjoyed the Hawaiian Islands. They are a real little paradise in spite of the influx of Americans who have made it one of their most pleasant 'centers of resort': the soft climate and luxuriance of the tropics; the greenness, the fragrance, the flowers - extraordinary flowers covering the tallest trees and turning them into huge bouquets."

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Delivered: August 28, 2020

"British women can be slightly more reserved; Scottish are a little more crazy and fun, and American are more forthright, which I really enjoy."

Sam Heughan

Delivered: September 1, 2020

"I used to work in the cotton fields a lot when I was young. There were a lot of African Americans working out there. A lot of Mexicans - the blacks and the whites and the Mexicans, all out there singing, and it was like an opera in the cotton fields, and I can still hear it in the music that I write and play today."

Willie Nelson

Delivered: August 4, 2020

"One thing about America is Americans are real people. So it's like, if they see that you're real, this is real, then they're gonna relate to it."

Burna Boy

Delivered: August 18, 2020

"My father told me about American democracy. And he said you have to be actively engaged in the political process to make our democracy work. So I've been doing that my entire life. Civil rights movement. The peace movement during the Vietnam conflict. The movement to get an apology and redress for Japanese-Americans."

George Takei

Delivered: August 21, 2020

"The promise of the American Dream requires that we are all provided an equal opportunity to participate in and contribute to our nation."

Charles B. Rangel

Delivered: August 23, 2020

"American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan. But they don't know what to copy."

W. Edwards Deming

Delivered: August 17, 2020

"And we should be a welcoming nation. Our identity is not based on race or ethnicity, it's based on a set of shared values. That's American citizenship."

Jeb Bush

Delivered: August 7, 2020

"I think what you're seeing is a profound recognition on the part of the American people that gays and lesbians and transgender persons are our brothers, our sisters, our children, our cousins, our friends, our co-workers, and that they've got to be treated like every other American. And I think that principle will win out."

Barack Obama

Delivered: August 25, 2020

"The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people."

C. L. R. James

Delivered: August 27, 2020

"Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher."

Pauline Kael

Delivered: August 13, 2020

"When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three choices: It can raise taxes, print money, or borrow money. While these actions may benefit politicians, all three options are bad for average Americans."

Ron Paul

Delivered: August 22, 2020

"Black women have always been these vixens, these animalistic erotic women. Why can't we just be the sexy American girl next door?"

Tyra Banks

Delivered: August 30, 2020

"I speak, Hindi, English, and American. I'm trilingual."

Priyanka Chopra

Delivered: August 10, 2020

"I think the Lewis and Clark Expedition was the greatest undertaking in American History. I think landing a man on the moon pales next to it."

Kathryn Lasky

Delivered: August 20, 2020

"Drones are just another weapon, and they turn out to be a very effective weapon that puts no American troops at risk, and I don't see why we shouldn't use them against identified enemy targets."

Colin Powell

Delivered: August 26, 2020

"If proud Americans can be who they are and boldly stand at the altar with who they love then surely, surely we can give everyone in this country a fair chance at that great American Dream."

Michelle Obama

Delivered: August 31, 2020

"I have an old-fashioned belief that Americans like to make up their own minds on the basis of all available information."

Edward R. Murrow

Delivered: August 14, 2020

"No matter what you think about the Iraq war, there is one thing we can all agree on for the next days - we have to salute the courage and bravery of those who are risking their lives to vote and those brave Iraqi and American soldiers fighting to protect their right to vote."

Hillary Clinton

Delivered: August 29, 2020