"I liked St. Louis, when they were in the American League, because that was going home. I had all my family and friends there."
Yogi Berra
Delivered: November 23, 2020
"When I first envisioned 'Funny Games' in the mid-1990s, it was my intention to have an American audience watch the movie. It is a reaction to a certain American cinema, its violence, its naivety, the way American cinema toys with human beings. In many American films, violence is made consumable."
Michael Haneke
Delivered: November 24, 2020
"I am a freeman, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order."
Lyndon B. Johnson
Delivered: November 3, 2020
"I see Americans of every party, every background, every faith who believe that we are stronger together: black, white, Latino, Asian, Native American; young, old; gay, straight; men, women, folks with disabilities, all pledging allegiance under the same proud flag to this big, bold country that we love. That's what I see. That's the America I know!"
Barack Obama
Delivered: November 13, 2020
"According to my parents, I was supposed to have been a nice, churchgoing Swiss housewife. Instead I ended up an opinionated psychiatrist, author and lecturer in the American Southwest, who communicates with spirits from a world that I believe is far more loving and glorious than our own."
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Delivered: November 6, 2020
"I don't have a nickname. But, hey, they can call me what they want - The Silent Assassin, The Underground King. In Japan, they call me American Knuckle Star. Call me what you want."
Eddie Alvarez
Delivered: November 21, 2020
"American food is the food of immigrants. You go back a couple of hundred years, and we were all immigrants, unless we're going to talk about Native American cuisine."
Ruth Reichl
Delivered: November 5, 2020
"I'm an American citizen now, but I will always have Canadian pride."
Harland Williams
Delivered: November 10, 2020
"That's part of American greatness, is discrimination. Yes, sir. Inequality, I think, breeds freedom and gives a man opportunity."
Lester Maddox
Delivered: November 18, 2020
"Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half."
Gore Vidal
Delivered: November 28, 2020
"The average American is nothing if not patriotic."
Herbert Croly
Delivered: November 30, 2020
"I see the face of a child. He lives in a great city. He is black. Or he is white. He is Mexican, Italian, Polish. None of that matters. What matters, he's an American child."
Richard M. Nixon
Delivered: November 29, 2020
"People love stories about the mafia: 'The Godfather,' 'American Gangster.'"
Jason Statham
Delivered: December 1, 2020
"The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time."
Jackie Robinson
Delivered: November 4, 2020
"My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over."
Gerald R. Ford
Delivered: November 11, 2020
"American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it."
James Baldwin
Delivered: November 20, 2020
"The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants."
Camille Paglia
Delivered: November 22, 2020
"I had a weird accent. Dutch people speak American English, and my parents were Jamaican, with their own broken English."
Stefflon Don
Delivered: November 2, 2020
"I love the idea of what America is. America is a bunch of people that do these incredible, thankless, selfless jobs that nobody really knows about that makes that American dream possible."
Tim Kennedy
Delivered: November 9, 2020
"I was a victim of the American Dream, the bourgeois, middle-class dream. All I wanted was a little piece of life, to be married, to have children."
Anne Sexton
Delivered: November 15, 2020
"Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously wrong."
Russell Baker
Delivered: November 25, 2020
"My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes."
Ronald Reagan
Delivered: November 26, 2020
"If we despond, public confidence is destroyed, the people will no longer yield their support to a hopeless contest, and American liberty is no more. Through the darkness which shrouds our prospects, the ark of safety is visible. Despondency becomes not the dignity of our cause, nor the character of those who are its supporters."
Samuel Adams
Delivered: November 8, 2020
"Our socialism does not include extreme materialistic concepts, since Indonesia is primarily a God-fearing, God-loving nation. Our socialism is a mixture. We draw political equality from the American Declaration of Independence. We draw spiritual equality from Islam and Christianity. We draw scientific equality from Marx."
Sukarno
Delivered: November 12, 2020
"One can not be an American by going about saying that one is an American. It is necessary to feel America, like America, love America and then work."
Georgia O'Keeffe
Delivered: November 14, 2020
"We're going to build that wall high, and we're going to build it tall. We're going to build that wall, and we're going to build it out of love. We're going to build it out of love for every family who wants to raise their kids in safety and peace... We're building it out of love for America and Americans of all backgrounds."
Stephen Miller
Delivered: November 27, 2020
"Americans are always mortified when I tell them this, but in England, it's a tradition to put your plaques and photographs and awards and gold records and stuff in your bathroom. I don't know why."
Adele
Delivered: November 7, 2020
"Americans did not want to see a Mexican become more popular in boxing than Muhammad Ali."
Julio Cesar Chavez Sr.
Delivered: November 19, 2020
"With Americans worried about losing their jobs, their savings, their homes and their chance at the American Dream, the New Direction Congress will work in a bipartisan way to lift our economy and help America's middle class."
Nancy Pelosi
Delivered: November 17, 2020
"I have never written that there is a threat of fascism in America. I always considered the idea overwrought. But now I believe there really is such a threat - and it will come draped not in an American flag, but in the name of tolerance and health."
Dennis Prager
Delivered: November 16, 2020