"We shall listen, not lecture; learn, not threaten. We will enhance our safety by earning the respect of others and showing respect for them. In short, our foreign policy will rest on the traditional American values of restraint and empathy, not on military might."
Theodore C. Sorensen
Delivered: October 5, 2020
"Ninety-nine percent of the men and women of the FBI... are just professionals. I don't want Americans, if an FBI agent knocks on their door, to have to be worried about well, is he a Democrat or a Republican? He's an FBI agent."
John Kennedy
Delivered: October 9, 2020
"The Gross National Product measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country. It measures everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile, and it can tell us everything about America - except whether we are proud to be Americans."
Robert Kennedy
Delivered: October 30, 2020
"During the Cold War, America undertook serious military cuts only once: after the election of Richard Nixon, during the Vietnam War. The result: Vietnam fell to the Communists, the Russians moved into Afghanistan, and American influence around the globe waned dramatically."
Ben Shapiro
Delivered: October 6, 2020
"If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the clergy."
Marquis de Lafayette
Delivered: October 7, 2020
"The buffalo isn't as dangerous as everyone makes him out to be. Statistics prove that in the United States more Americans are killed in automobile accidents than are killed by buffalo."
Art Buchwald
Delivered: October 12, 2020
"Cinco de Mayo has come to represent a celebration of the contributions that Mexican Americans and all Hispanics have made to America."
Joe Baca
Delivered: October 20, 2020
"There's a misconception that I can't relate to the quote-unquote 'Asian-American experience' because I didn't grow up with an Asian mom and dad. And that's just not true. I am Asian American, and so playing a girl who is half Korean, half white, but her white dad tried really hard to connect with her mom's heritage - that's very familiar to me."
Lana Condor
Delivered: October 22, 2020
"Given a fair shot, given a fair chance, Americans have never, ever, ever, ever let their country down. Never. Never. Ordinary people like us. Who do extraordinary things."
Joe Biden
Delivered: October 4, 2020
"Americans want to democratise us. OK, but why not go and democratise Saudi Arabia. Are we anything like Saudi Arabia? No, we are far from that. So why aren't they democratising Saudi Arabia? Because they are bastards, but they are their bastards."
Alexander Lukashenko
Delivered: October 18, 2020
"What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending."
William Dean Howells
Delivered: October 10, 2020
"American imperialism is often traced to the takeover of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Hawaii in 1898."
Noam Chomsky
Delivered: October 17, 2020
"Happiness does not come from football awards. It's terrible to correlate happiness with football. Happiness comes from a good job, being able to feed your wife and kids. I don't dream football, I dream the American dream - two cars in a garage, be a happy father."
Barry Sanders
Delivered: October 28, 2020
"Every black American is bilingual. All of them. We speak street vernacular and we speak 'job interview.'"
Dave Chappelle
Delivered: October 2, 2020
"Your grandparents came of age in the Great Depression, when everyday life was about deprivation and sacrifice, when the economic conditions of the time were so grave and so unrelenting it would have been easy enough for the American dream to fade away."
Tom Brokaw
Delivered: October 8, 2020
"Many Jews are not Zionists and many non-Jews are. Zionism is a political movement, not a race. To say Zionism is the Jewish people is like saying the Democratic Party is the American people. Jewish people who oppose Zionism, however, have been given a very hard time."
David Icke
Delivered: October 19, 2020
"'Indian policy' has now been brought down upon the American people, and the American people are the new Indians of the 21st Century."
Russell Means
Delivered: October 23, 2020
"American culture is probably the least Christian culture that we've ever had because it is so materialistic and it's so full of lies. The whole advertising world is just, it's just intertwined with lies, appealing to the worst of the instincts we have."
Eugene H. Peterson
Delivered: November 1, 2020
"Nothing can astound an American. It has often been asserted that the word 'impossible' is not a French one. People have evidently been deceived by the dictionary. In America, all is easy, all is simple; and as for mechanical difficulties, they are overcome before they arise."
Jules Verne
Delivered: October 25, 2020
"We're one people, and we all live in the same house. Not the American house, but the world house."
John Lewis
Delivered: October 3, 2020
"When we say, 'Look, Donald Trump was a friend to hip hop back in the day; so was Bill Clinton,' It doesn't mean that because he was a friend to hip hop back in the day, that the same Bill Clinton wasn't at the lead of this mass incarceration of African Americans today."
KRS-One
Delivered: October 16, 2020
"You can call me whatever you want to call me, but I am an American. No one can take that away from me. No, no one can."
Jose Antonio Vargas
Delivered: October 24, 2020
"I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of."
Dashiell Hammett
Delivered: October 31, 2020
"Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb."
Spiro T. Agnew
Delivered: October 13, 2020
"The American people abhor a vacuum."
Theodore Roosevelt
Delivered: October 26, 2020
"These days I wonder more and more why people are pessimistic when American history actually supports optimism."
bell hooks
Delivered: October 15, 2020
"Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men."
Norman Mailer
Delivered: October 21, 2020
"The American dream is a crock. Stop wanting everything. Everyone should wear jeans and have three T-shirts, eat rice and beans."
Bill Hicks
Delivered: October 11, 2020
"It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it."
Eric Hoffer
Delivered: October 14, 2020
"I don't accept the status quo. I do accept Visa, MasterCard, or American Express."
Stephen Colbert
Delivered: October 27, 2020
"The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But it's a joke, a blot on American history."
Frank Waters
Delivered: October 29, 2020