"We as Americans believe it's OK to kill people. We believe it's OK to invade a country that had nothing to do with 9/11. We think it's OK to invade a country where we think Osama Bin Laden is and he's in the other country. So we just go in and we just kill. And we have the death penalty; we sanction it."
Michael Moore
Delivered: January 28, 2021
"The hard-working Americans, the people who made this country so great, they've been left in the dust."
Donald Trump, Jr.
Delivered: February 2, 2021
"I was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy."
Marilyn Monroe
Delivered: February 3, 2021
"Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live."
Douglas MacArthur
Delivered: February 4, 2021
"The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work."
W. Edwards Deming
Delivered: February 7, 2021
"We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours; we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries."
Will Durant
Delivered: February 20, 2021
"There are those who would draw a sharp line between power politics and a principled foreign policy based on values. This polarized view - you are either a realist or devoted to norms and values - may be just fine in academic debate, but it is a disaster for American foreign policy. American values are universal."
Condoleezza Rice
Delivered: February 25, 2021
"I speak to you only as an American who happens to be an American Negro and one who is proud of that heritage. We ask for nothing special. We ask only that we be permitted to compete on an even basis, and if we are not worthy, then the competition shall, per se, eliminate us."
Jackie Robinson
Delivered: March 11, 2021
"I have never been more proud of the United States than I am this year. We have elected an African-American president. We have the stellar Michelle Obama setting the standard for American women. I simply cannot say it enough: look how far we've come."
Kathryn Stockett
Delivered: March 26, 2021
"The name 'reservation' has a negative connotation among Native Americans - an intern camp of sorts."
John Russell
Delivered: April 5, 2021
"We Americans... bear the ark of liberties of the world."
Mark Twain
Delivered: May 5, 2021
"You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else."
Winston Churchill
Delivered: January 2, 2023
"I define the American dream as the ability to imagine a way that you want your life to turn out, and have a reasonable hope that you can achieve that."
David Henry Hwang
Delivered: January 5, 2021
"I'm one of those people that feels that Americans that shouldn't do Shakespeare... The rhythms of the English language and the mannerisms of the English speech seems to work effortlessly with William Shakespeare, but when Americans do it, something seems stuck."
Nicolas Cage
Delivered: January 10, 2021
"I'm very proud being Puerto Rican. I'm American. That is what America is made of - people from different lands."
Jose Feliciano
Delivered: February 1, 2021
"People say, 'Well you know the economy's bad, so China consumption will be low. No, totally different. You Americans love to spend tomorrow's money, and other people's money maybe... We Chinese love to save money."
Jack Ma
Delivered: February 13, 2021
"It's hard to decide if TV makes morons out of everyone, or if it mirrors Americans who really are morons to begin with."
Martin Mull
Delivered: March 5, 2021
"I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism."
Barack Obama
Delivered: March 6, 2021
"The 21st century is going to be the American century. Because we lead not only by the example of our power, but by the power of our example. That is the history of the journey of America."
Joe Biden
Delivered: March 23, 2021
"A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues."
Theodore Roosevelt
Delivered: April 13, 2021
"I don't think that people generally realize what the motion picture industry has done to the American Indian, as a matter of fact, all ethnic groups. All minorities. All non-whites. People just simply don't realize. They take it for granted that that's the way people are going to be presented and that these cliches are just going to be perpetuated."
Marlon Brando
Delivered: April 15, 2021
"Instead of begging OPEC to drop its oil prices, let's use American leadership and ingenuity to solve our own energy problems."
Pete Domenici
Delivered: April 16, 2021
"Immigrants have faced huge obstacles to achieving the American Dream, yet have persevered to overcome them."
Charles B. Rangel
Delivered: April 21, 2021
"I have long hair because I'm American Indian. I'm an Oklahoma boy, and I'm very proud of my heritage."
Christian Kane
Delivered: April 22, 2021
"For years, we've grown dependant on American consumers as the world's spenders of last resort. They've kept Europe out of recession, allowed China to industrialise, and prevented global deflation. But at the same time, they've not been looking after their own futures."
Evan Davis
Delivered: May 1, 2021
"We seek the right to play our part in advancing the cause of national defense and national unity. But certainly, there can be no true national unity where one-tenth of the population is denied their basic rights as American citizens."
A. Philip Randolph
Delivered: May 11, 2021
"In addition to the decline in competition, American politics today is characterized by a growing ideological polarization between the two major political parties."
Thomas E. Mann
Delivered: February 28, 2021
"We Americans are a primitive people... Americans seem to have little respect for the law or the rights of others."
Charles Lindbergh
Delivered: March 10, 2021
"North Americans don't understand... that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity."
Fidel Castro
Delivered: March 15, 2021
"The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information."
Henry A. Wallace
Delivered: April 3, 2021
"If my life has had a theme, I suppose it has been a typical American theme in that, for most of it, I have been looking for happiness and success."
Zig Ziglar
Delivered: April 4, 2021
"Abortion is not a right. It is a violent act against the defenseless. It violates every principle of morality and should be barred by American law. Until that day, I fully support bans on partial-birth abortion, third-trimester abortion, and indeed every limit that can receive public support."
Josh Hawley
Delivered: January 3, 2021
"The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive."
Betty Friedan
Delivered: January 19, 2021
"I'm not sure if you can blame everything on the American way of life, but the United States are big. So, if you have a lot of people there, the percentage of stupid people is bound to be higher."
Stephen Malkmus
Delivered: February 14, 2021
"I criticized the whole American songwriting industry and the pop side of it and I was bitter about it. And I stepped back and thought 'Why are you bitter? You can't just stand there like every other indie musician and criticize this so-called 'generic' music when you're not doing anything to challenge that.'"
Marina and the Diamonds
Delivered: February 27, 2021
"The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it?"
H. G. Wells
Delivered: March 3, 2021
"The heroic action of American law enforcement is the only force standing between us and total anarchy."
Marjorie Taylor Greene
Delivered: March 16, 2021
"The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf."
Will Rogers
Delivered: March 25, 2021
"I had experiences or exposure to music in church. I went to a church, it was very unique. It was a predominantly African American Catholic church. So they would have - one mass would be traditional church music, and then the other mass would be gospel music."
Aaron Diehl
Delivered: April 24, 2021
"Let us remember we are all part of one American family. We are united in common values, and that includes belief in equality under the law, basic respect for public order, and the right of peaceful protest."
Barack Obama
Delivered: January 6, 2021
"One night in 1974, I made the comment, 'Here I am, this fat kid, the son of a plumber. I don't look like a body builder; fist fight in a parking lot, it doesn't matter. I'm getting ready to sell out this building. I'm going to sell out Madison Square Garden one day. This is the American Dream. I'm living it.'"
Dusty Rhodes
Delivered: January 23, 2021
"American stuntmen are smart - they think about safety. When they do a jump in a car, they calculate everything: the speed, the distance... But in Hong Kong, we don't know how to count. Everything we do is a guess. If you've got the guts, you do it. All of my stuntmen have gotten hurt."
Jackie Chan
Delivered: January 25, 2021
"Not only am I literally and figuratively the dark horse, I'm actually the poor horse. The only thing that I have going for me is my soul and my commitment to the American people."
Shirley Chisholm
Delivered: February 12, 2021
"The '20s ended in an era of extravagance, sort of like the one we're in now. There was a big crash, but then the country picked itself up again, and we had some great years. Those were the days when American believed in itself. I was happy and proud to be painting it."
Norman Rockwell
Delivered: February 21, 2021
"The death of JFK to the resignation of Richard Nixon marked a great turning point in American life."
Pierre Salinger
Delivered: February 26, 2021
"When reflecting upon it today, that the Pearl Harbor attack should have succeeded in achieving surprise seems a blessing from Heaven. It was clear that a great American fleet had been concentrated in Pearl Harbor, and we supposed that the state of alert would be very high."
Hideki Tojo
Delivered: March 13, 2021
"I bought a lifetime pass on American Airlines and had a blast. The most memorable was going to Barcelona on a whim and scalping tickets at the Olympics to the Dream Team Quarterfinals."
Mark Cuban
Delivered: April 17, 2021
"After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world."
Calvin Coolidge
Delivered: April 25, 2021
"The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history."
Noam Chomsky
Delivered: April 29, 2021
"Americans are future-minded to the point of obsession. We are impatient at living in the present. Tomorrow is bound to be better... next year, next century, always what might be rather than what is. This trait in us makes for 'progress;' it also makes for a continuing dissatisfaction."
Gore Vidal
Delivered: April 30, 2021
"The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other."
Alexis de Tocqueville
Delivered: January 16, 2021
"Our national motto is 'In God we Trust,' reminding us that faith in our Creator is the most important American value of all."
Marco Rubio
Delivered: March 8, 2021
"I continue to believe that the American people have a love-hate relationship with inflation. They hate inflation but love everything that causes it."
William E. Simon
Delivered: March 18, 2021
"The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on."
Warren Buffett
Delivered: January 15, 2021
"To me, country music's about life. It's about Monday through Friday. It's the blue-collar, 40-hour week, songs about life. It used to have more of a sound, but I think the heart of that's still the same. It's still American music."
Gary Allan
Delivered: January 20, 2021
"What I love about America is not necessarily the American Dream but the fact that there's so much spirit of fighting to continue to dream once the dreams are broken."
Chloe Zhao
Delivered: February 15, 2021
"My CIA godfather told me he'd never heard any American speak Japanese so well."
Steven Seagal
Delivered: March 2, 2021
"I understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain."
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Delivered: March 4, 2021
"I've come to the point in my life where I encourage young Native Americans to become much more selfish about their personal needs and wants."
Sherman Alexie
Delivered: March 7, 2021
"One can't doubt that the American objective in Iraq has failed - different plans have to be made. And the kernel here is the acknowledgement of defeat."
William F. Buckley, Jr.
Delivered: April 14, 2021
"Most Americans are fiscally conservative and socially liberal. I'm advocating a balanced budget. But along with that, look, there should be gay marriage equality. A woman should have the right to choose. Let's not build a fence across the border."
Gary Johnson
Delivered: May 6, 2021
"Millions of Americans were duped by the federal government and the Federal Reserve into buying homes they could not afford and failed to count the cost. When the financial crisis of 2008 hit, they could not keep up the monthly mortgage payments and defaulted."
Mark Skousen
Delivered: January 18, 2021
"The hope, the hope that lives in the breast of the black American, is just so tremendous that it overwhelms me sometimes."
Maya Angelou
Delivered: January 29, 2021
"I am an American. Black. Conservative. I don't use African-American, because I'm American, I'm black and I'm conservative. I don't like people trying to label me. African- American is socially acceptable for some people, but I am not some people."
Herman Cain
Delivered: January 30, 2021
"Financial literacy is an issue that should command our attention because many Americans are not adequately organizing finances for their education, healthcare and retirement."
Ron Lewis
Delivered: February 10, 2021
"Black women I'm talking to you, because it's not white women, it's not Latino, it's not Native American - I checked, it's y'all. The self hate is ridiculous. Why do you hate yourself so much, why do you hate your texture, why do you hate your culture, why do you hate your history?"
Summer Walker
Delivered: February 24, 2021
"The MTC is known for singing music by great master composers, hymns, American music, Broadway numbers, popular songs, and inspirational music. If the audience doesn't like one genre, they need only wait for the next number."
Mack Wilberg
Delivered: March 24, 2021
"American dog say, 'Woof, woof.' Korean dog say, 'Mung, mung.' Polish dog say, 'How, how.' So which dog barking is correct? That is human beings' barking, not 'dog' barking. If dog and you become one hundred percent one, then you know sound of barking. This is Zen teaching. Boom! Become one."
Seung Sahn
Delivered: April 8, 2021
"Americans... still believe in an America where anything's possible - they just don't think their leaders do."
Barack Obama
Delivered: April 27, 2021
"The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms."
James Madison
Delivered: May 3, 2021
"The history of my state of Oklahoma offers a great example of pursuing the American Dream. It was built and settled by pioneers moving West to seek better lives."
Mary Fallin
Delivered: May 12, 2021
"Americans deserve a better tomorrow, today."
Nancy Pelosi
Delivered: May 15, 2021
"Look, freedom is an overwhelming American notion. The idea that we want to see the world, the peoples of the world free is something that all of us subscribe to."
Joe Biden
Delivered: January 7, 2021
"Gary Cooper was a good friend. He was a great nature lover. He was like an American Indian, he knew every leaf that was turned over. It was an education to go for a walk with him."
Richard Widmark
Delivered: January 12, 2021
"Let there be freedom for the Indians, wherever they may be in the American Continent or elsewhere in the world, because while they are alive, a glow of hope will be alive as well as a true concept of life."
Rigoberta Menchu
Delivered: January 21, 2021
"My fellow Americans, from the battlefield to the capitals of our allies and friends and partners, the free peoples of the world look to America as the last best hope for peace and for liberty for all humankind, for we are the greatest country on this planet."
John R. Allen
Delivered: February 16, 2021
"Standing up for what you believe in, to me, is freedom of speech. And that's a right that every American citizen has and what makes this country great."
Will Muschamp
Delivered: February 17, 2021
"Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace."
John F. Kennedy
Delivered: March 1, 2021
"Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic."
Dan Rather
Delivered: March 12, 2021
"Canada is the essence of not being. Not English, not American, it is the mathematic of not being. And a subtle flavour - we're more like celery as a flavour."
Mike Myers
Delivered: March 20, 2021
"Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans."
Adlai Stevenson I
Delivered: March 21, 2021
"There is something uniquely American about the motel: It speaks to the transient nature of America itself, one enabled and encouraged by our roads and highways."
Hanya Yanagihara
Delivered: March 28, 2021
"The answer to many of the domestic problems we face is not higher taxes and more spending. It is less waste, more results and greater freedom for the individual American to earn a rightful place in his own community - and for States and localities to address their own needs in their own ways, in the light of their own priorities."
Richard M. Nixon
Delivered: April 7, 2021
"Everybody has called Pop Art 'American' painting, but it's actually industrial painting."
Roy Lichtenstein
Delivered: April 10, 2021
"The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined."
Neal Barnard
Delivered: April 20, 2021
"But I know that the vote of 9 out of 10 black Americans for the Democratic Party or for leftist kinds of policies just is not reflective of their opinions."
Clarence Thomas
Delivered: January 9, 2021
"Our job is to ensure that meat and poultry products are safe, wholesome, accurately labeled for the benefit of the American consumers, and to make sure that they are in compliance with all federal laws."
Mike Johanns
Delivered: January 24, 2021
"American literature has always been immigrant."
Salman Rushdie
Delivered: January 26, 2021
"We're not Democrats first. We're not Republicans first. We're Americans first. We're patriots first."
Mitch McConnell
Delivered: March 19, 2021
"I voted for Barack because he was black. 'Cuz that's why other folks vote for other people - because they look like them... That's American politics, pure and simple."
Samuel L. Jackson
Delivered: April 2, 2021
"Considering that Americans are now moving away from whiskey, moving away from brown spirits in general, I believe that they will all join Russians who drink vodka straight. They will sip it like cognac."
Roustam Tariko
Delivered: May 9, 2021
"If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land."
Henry James
Delivered: May 10, 2021
"Automation has emerged as a bigger threat to American jobs than globalization or immigration combined."
Oren Etzioni
Delivered: May 13, 2021
"Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father."
Gloria Steinem
Delivered: January 17, 2021
"I feel that I am a citizen of the American dream and that the revolutionary struggle of which I am a part is a struggle against the American nightmare."
Eldridge Cleaver
Delivered: February 22, 2021
"There's a lot of bad consequences that flow from segregation. The kids don't do as well. We live separately. We don't learn about each other. We're all Americans. And yet, we separate based on, basically, race. And I believe it's got to stop."
Walter F. Mondale
Delivered: February 23, 2021
"If Obamacare is allowed to stand - and Congress is allowed to make the purchase of government-endorsed health insurance compulsory - there will be no meaningful limit on Washington's reach into the lives of the American people. That is certainly not what the Founders intended."
John Cornyn
Delivered: March 27, 2021
"Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn't give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war."
George S. Patton
Delivered: April 6, 2021
"This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Delivered: April 23, 2021
"If the American people don't love me, their descendants will."
Lyndon B. Johnson
Delivered: May 8, 2021
"I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock 'n' roll are all just really one thing. Those are the American music and that is the American culture."
Etta James
Delivered: January 2, 2021
"I am surprised and embarrassed to be a part of the first American generation to leave the country in far worse shape than it was when we first came into it."
Hunter S. Thompson
Delivered: January 4, 2021
"There is no greater country on Earth for entrepreneurship than America. In every category, from the high-tech world of Silicon Valley, where I live, to University R&D labs, to countless Main Street small business owners, Americans are taking risks, embracing new ideas and - most importantly - creating jobs."
Eric Ries
Delivered: January 11, 2021
"Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests."
C. Wright Mills
Delivered: January 31, 2021
"No, I do not have dual citizenship with Israel. I'm an American."
Ben Cardin
Delivered: April 11, 2021
"Tariffs that save jobs in the steel industry mean higher steel prices, which in turn means fewer sales of American steel products around the world and losses of far more jobs than are saved."
Thomas Sowell
Delivered: April 26, 2021
"Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality."
James Baldwin
Delivered: May 14, 2021
"I am honorary President of the American Humanist Society, having succeeded the late, great science fiction writer Isaac Asimov in that utterly functionless capacity. We Humanists behave as well as we can, without any rewards or punishments in an Afterlife."
Kurt Vonnegut
Delivered: January 14, 2021
"The gratification of helping others is a very American tradition and a Judeo-Christian tradition. Now it is great to see young people creating funds and giving back in all sorts of productive ways. It's a terrifically satisfying thing."
Evelyn Lauder
Delivered: February 5, 2021
"Steve McQueen was from a time when you didn't know every little dirty thing about our public figures. He and James Dean were very mysterious, archetypal American heroes."
Sheryl Crow
Delivered: February 6, 2021
"I've never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies... Egotism and laziness. And they're all lit like television shows."
Orson Welles
Delivered: February 19, 2021
"The greatest public health threat for many American women is the men they live with."
Anna Quindlen
Delivered: March 30, 2021
"I would lose straight away if I went on 'American Idol.'"
Tom DeLonge
Delivered: April 12, 2021
"I will never shave off my beard and moustache. I did once, for charity, but my wife said, 'Good grief, how awful, you look like an American car with all the chrome removed.'"
Rolf Harris
Delivered: April 19, 2021
"The United States is in a time of transition. Courts have redefined marriage, and beliefs about human sexuality are changing. Will the right to dissent be protected? Will the right of Americans to speak and act in accord with what the United States had always believed about marriage - that it's a union of husband and wife - be tolerated?"
Edwin Meese
Delivered: January 22, 2021
"For me as an American, the most painful aspect of this is that I believe that that administration has taken the events of 9/11 and has manipulated the grief of the country and I think that's reprehensible."
Dustin Hoffman
Delivered: February 8, 2021
"My experience as a school nurse taught me that we need to make a concerted effort, all of us, to increase physical fitness activity among our children and to encourage all Americans to adopt a healthier diet that includes fruits and vegetables, but there is more."
Lois Capps
Delivered: March 9, 2021
"The American 'unum' has been lost since the Sixties. If this continues, there will soon be no unifying American identity and vision to balance the 'pluribus,' and the days of the Republic will be numbered."
Os Guinness
Delivered: March 14, 2021
"American taxpayers have been generous to Louisiana in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita."
John Kennedy
Delivered: April 28, 2021
"There's a book called 'Where The Wild Things Are,' by American writer Maurice Sendak... it really is the most sublime book. It's a picture book, but it works at so many levels, and it's fantastic."
Graeme Base
Delivered: January 27, 2021
"A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy."
Camille Paglia
Delivered: March 22, 2021
"It's really American to avoid paying taxes, legally."
Lindsey Graham
Delivered: March 31, 2021
"Madam Walker was a woman who transformed herself in a very American, rags-to-riches way."
A'Lelia Bundles
Delivered: April 1, 2021
"According to the U.N., more than 2.7 billion people will face severe water shortages by 2025. Many social scientists predict that the next big wars will be over water. Nevertheless, the average American family blissfully consumes 300 gallons a day, when you add in watering the lawn and washing dishes, clothes, and cars."
Alex Shoumatoff
Delivered: May 2, 2021
"Jazz music, as is also the case with the old down-home spirituals, gospel and jubilee songs, jumps, shouts and moans, is essentially an American vernacular or idiomatic modification of musical conventions imported from Europe, beginning back during the time of the early settlers of the original colonies."
Albert Murray
Delivered: May 4, 2021
"Most Americans will let liberals and conservatives play their games because most Americans don't pay attention."
Dennis Miller
Delivered: January 8, 2021
"If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the troubles will come to an end, and the question which now distracts the country will be settled just as surely as all other difficulties of like character which have originated in this government have been adjusted."
Abraham Lincoln
Delivered: January 13, 2021
"The death penalty, I think, is a terrible scar on American justice, especially the concept of equal justice under law, but also of due process. And it goes state by state, and it's different in different states."
Burke Marshall
Delivered: February 9, 2021
"Freedom. Freedom of religion. Freedom to speak their mind. Freedom to build a life. And yes, freedom to build a business. With their own hands. This is the essence of the American experience."
Mitt Romney
Delivered: February 11, 2021
"The liberal left can be as rigid and destructive as any force in American life."
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Delivered: February 18, 2021
"I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie."
H. Rap Brown
Delivered: March 17, 2021
"Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun."
Jim Bishop
Delivered: March 29, 2021
"In the education of the American people, I am Recess."
Garry Marshall
Delivered: April 9, 2021
"When you tell the American people, 'Read my lips. No new taxes,' that should mean no new taxes."
Ted Cruz
Delivered: April 18, 2021
"Would the Protestant Reformation have happened without the printing press? Would the American Revolution have happened without pamphlets? Probably not. But neither printing presses nor pamphlets were the heroes of reform and revolution."
Rebecca MacKinnon
Delivered: May 7, 2021
"If the United States had maintained its spending under Ronald Reagan, it is possible that the attacks of 9/11 - presaged by Islamic terror attacks on multiple American targets beginning with the first bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993 - would have been stopped."
Ben Shapiro
Delivered: July 1, 2021
"I'm a big fan of small business ownership. I think it's the backbone of American innovation. But to be successful, you first have to have the courage to go for it."
Bill Rancic
Delivered: June 20, 2021
"Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages."
H. L. Mencken
Delivered: June 27, 2021
"I grew up in the 1960s in Memphis, and my father was a member of the American Civil Liberties Union. I was born three years before Martin Luther King was killed, and I think that history of civil action was something that I had in my blood."
Ira Sachs
Delivered: May 17, 2021
"We were American citizens. We were incarcerated by our American government in American internment camps here in the United States. The term 'Japanese internment camp' is both grammatically and factually incorrect."
George Takei
Delivered: July 2, 2021
"The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek."
Henry Adams
Delivered: July 10, 2021
"We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world."
Dan Quayle
Delivered: August 12, 2021
"For me, being an 'American Latina' means identifying with and being influenced by both my American upbringing and my Latin heritage, and I have so much appreciation for how those two cultures have created who I am."
Camila Mendes
Delivered: August 13, 2021
"On American sets, you work 12-, 14-, 16-hour days sometimes. All that volume over a short course of time can actually be less conducive to telling a story accurately."
Timothee Chalamet
Delivered: August 14, 2021
"For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents."
Barack Obama
Delivered: August 21, 2021
"The opportunities of America opened out to me the public schools. They carried me to the professional training of an American university. I began by working with my own hands for my daily bread."
Herbert Hoover
Delivered: August 22, 2021
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public."
Theodore Roosevelt
Delivered: August 23, 2021
"The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission."
John F. Kennedy
Delivered: September 19, 2021
"You can always tell a man's nationality by introducing him to a beautiful girl. An Englishman shakes her hand; a Frenchman kisses her hand; an American asks her for a date; and a Russian wires Moscow for instructions."
Anna Karina
Delivered: September 24, 2021
"I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government."
Ferdinand Marcos
Delivered: December 19, 2021
"I say let's not gamble with American jobs and America's future."
John Glenn
Delivered: December 31, 2021
"Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it'll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off."
Kevin Hart
Delivered: April 20, 2022
"Research is creating new knowledge."
Neil Armstrong
Delivered: April 26, 2022
"Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not."
Ursula K. Le Guin
Delivered: April 27, 2022
"The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret."
Henny Youngman
Delivered: May 3, 2022
"If you're presenting yourself with confidence, you can pull off pretty much anything."
Katy Perry
Delivered: May 21, 2022
"I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness."
Christopher Hitchens
Delivered: June 22, 2022
"Into each life some rain must fall."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Delivered: June 27, 2022
"The only people for me are the mad ones: the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who... burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow Roman candles."
Jack Kerouac
Delivered: July 3, 2022
"The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun."
Christopher McCandless
Delivered: July 5, 2022
"When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'."
Erma Bombeck
Delivered: July 13, 2022
"Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them."
Mahalia Jackson
Delivered: July 16, 2022
"The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so."
Ronald Reagan
Delivered: July 29, 2022
"I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever."
Thomas Jefferson
Delivered: August 10, 2022
"No matter what a woman looks like, if she's confident, she's sexy."
Paris Hilton
Delivered: September 13, 2022
"One of the downsides of being famous is that folks pay far more attention to you than they should. American celebrities are constantly under surveillance, and every word they say is subject to scrutiny. So, be careful what you wish for if you desire fame. No human being should be a goldfish."
Bill O'Reilly
Delivered: June 25, 2021
"A new breed of Republicans has taken over the GOP. It is a new breed which is seeking to sell to Americans a doctrine which is as old as mankind - the doctrine of racial division, the doctrine of racial prejudice, the doctrine of white supremacy."
Jackie Robinson
Delivered: July 17, 2021
"Americans are blessed with great plenty; we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are suffering from poverty, disease, war and famine."
Adam Schiff
Delivered: September 25, 2021
"American business has just forgotten the importance of selling."
Barry Goldwater
Delivered: November 4, 2021
"Nine out of ten Americans believe that out of ten people, one person will always disagree with the other nine!"
Colin Mochrie
Delivered: December 4, 2021
"Bankruptcy is about financial death and financial rebirth. Bankruptcy is the great American story rewritten. We're a nation of debtors."
Elizabeth Warren
Delivered: December 17, 2021
"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."
Benjamin Franklin
Delivered: January 11, 2022
"It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts."
Will Rogers
Delivered: February 2, 2022
"I'm a dreamer. I have to dream and reach for the stars, and if I miss a star then I grab a handful of clouds."
Mike Tyson
Delivered: February 9, 2022
"Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships."
Stephen Covey
Delivered: March 3, 2022
"My name is Adam Sandler. I'm not particularly talented. I'm not particularly good-looking. And yet I'm a multi-millionaire."
Adam Sandler
Delivered: March 11, 2022
"With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts."
Eleanor Roosevelt
Delivered: March 12, 2022
"I ain't giving up on myself, so if you give up on me, I ain't got nothing else to say for you."
Future
Delivered: March 20, 2022
"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough."
Mae West
Delivered: April 2, 2022
"Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose."
Lyndon B. Johnson
Delivered: April 5, 2022
"The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today."
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Delivered: April 24, 2022
"Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming."
John Wooden
Delivered: May 14, 2022
"I do believe in the old saying, 'What does not kill you makes you stronger.' Our experiences, good and bad, make us who we are. By overcoming difficulties, we gain strength and maturity."
Angelina Jolie
Delivered: May 17, 2022
"Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself."
John Dewey
Delivered: May 20, 2022
"Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!"
Dr. Seuss
Delivered: August 13, 2022
"The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails."
William Arthur Ward
Delivered: September 7, 2022
"If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it."
W. C. Fields
Delivered: September 20, 2022
"Most previous immigrants came to the United States to become Americans, with no intention of returning home. They relinquished their ties with their homeland. English was their key to prosperity, and they worked hard to master it."
John Shadegg
Delivered: July 21, 2021
"The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom."
George W. Bush
Delivered: July 24, 2021
"I want everybody to understand that I am an American Negro first before I am a member of any political party."
Jackie Robinson
Delivered: September 2, 2021
"Americans are not intrinsically imperial, but we ended up dominant by default: Europe disappeared after the Second World War, the Soviet Union disappeared in 1991, so here we are."
Charles Krauthammer
Delivered: October 8, 2021
"My great-grandfather fought with the Colonial Army in New England in the American Revolution."
W. E. B. Du Bois
Delivered: October 22, 2021
"In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins."
Newt Gingrich
Delivered: November 9, 2021
"Nationality is a very curious thing. The blood is Scots and the temperament is Scots, but I am, in fact, 100% American."
Alexander Mackendrick
Delivered: November 13, 2021
"After the 9/11 incidents, Islam has become a big question mark among westerners, especially Americans. The mass media constantly raise the issue of relationship between Islam and terrorism."
Abdolkarim Soroush
Delivered: November 21, 2021
"Most Americans don't even understand what I'm saying in my records, but they pick up on the vibe, the vibration."
Burna Boy
Delivered: December 6, 2021
"One of the greatest things about our band is that we bring the American dream to the world. Here's a bunch of kids that were living in nowhere New Jersey, and we made it through a lot of practice and a lot of work and a lot of luck. It shows the world, 'If we did it, you can do it.'"
David Bryan
Delivered: December 15, 2021
"They don't call it the Italian Dream or the English Dream. In America, there is the American Dream. It was the first place to give people of any social background their dream. You can achieve anything."
Fabio Lanzoni
Delivered: December 28, 2021
"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."
Mark Twain
Delivered: January 2, 2022
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart."
Helen Keller
Delivered: January 9, 2022
"My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them."
Mitch Hedberg
Delivered: January 27, 2022
"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Delivered: February 17, 2022
"I don't think we need more gun control laws."
John Kennedy
Delivered: March 13, 2022
"On Halloween, the parents sent their kids out looking like me."
Rodney Dangerfield
Delivered: March 27, 2022
"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time."
Thomas A. Edison
Delivered: March 28, 2022
"In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks."
John Muir
Delivered: May 2, 2022
"You're going to go through tough times - that's life. But I say, 'Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.' See the positive in negative events."
Joel Osteen
Delivered: May 8, 2022
"Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition."
Timothy Leary
Delivered: May 9, 2022
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool."
Richard P. Feynman
Delivered: May 13, 2022
"If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve."
William Tecumseh Sherman
Delivered: May 28, 2022
"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."
Calvin Coolidge
Delivered: June 4, 2022
"I have said this before. Donald Trump is very popular in Pennsylvania. We cannot afford to underestimate his popularity in our state. And I have emphasized that continuously."
John Fetterman
Delivered: June 12, 2022
"I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives, and the rights of the people have been bartered for promises of office."
Andrew Jackson
Delivered: June 17, 2022
"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Delivered: June 21, 2022
"Was I always going to be here? No I was not. I was going to be homeless at one time, a taxi driver, truck driver, or any kind of job that would get me a crust of bread. You never know what's going to happen."
Morgan Freeman
Delivered: July 1, 2022
"I think that we all do heroic things, but hero is not a noun, it's a verb."
Robert Downey, Jr.
Delivered: July 6, 2022
"I got a boss mentality."
Lil Baby
Delivered: August 14, 2022
"If the ride is more fly, then you must buy."
Snoop Dogg
Delivered: August 18, 2022
"Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan."
John F. Kennedy
Delivered: August 26, 2022
"A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom."
Bob Dylan
Delivered: September 3, 2022
"I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Delivered: May 26, 2021
"Democratic, Republican members of Congress get along fine. But what you have is this institutional Hatfield and McCoy sentiment coming from our constituents, where the base of both sides doesn't want people to get along. But the majority of Americans, I feel, the majority, they are in the middle. They actually do want both sides to get together."
Jared Polis
Delivered: June 6, 2021
"I am an American. I love my country and have great hopes for it. It is for this reason that I speak candidly and sometimes critically about it. I have benefited greatly from the freedom that exists in my country, and for this, I am eternally grateful."
Johnny Depp
Delivered: June 15, 2021
"We Americans sit at the head of the banquet table, as we have done for a century. Our standard of living is luxurious by any measure."
Deepak Chopra
Delivered: June 28, 2021
"We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New, but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough."
Henry David Thoreau
Delivered: June 29, 2021
"The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry."
Henry Kissinger
Delivered: July 7, 2021
"I think Americans are very patriotic."
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Delivered: July 22, 2021
"There are millions of Americans outside Washington who are tired of stale political arguments and are moving this country forward. They believe, and I believe, that here in America, our success should depend not on accident of birth, but the strength of our work ethic and the scope of our dreams."
Barack Obama
Delivered: July 23, 2021
"When President Teddy Roosevelt posed for the cameras astride a massive steam shovel during construction of the Panama Canal in 1906, it was more than a simple photo op. Though the scene was clearly staged, it symbolized a crucial moment in American history."
Alan Huffman
Delivered: August 30, 2021
"The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land."
James Baldwin
Delivered: September 11, 2021
"Presenting the American songbook as a living, breathing entity that's expanding all the time is very important."
Chris Thile
Delivered: November 20, 2021
"Let's be honest - tracking down, rounding up, and deporting millions of people isn't realistic. Anyone who suggests otherwise isn't being straight with you. It's also not who we are as Americans."
Barack Obama
Delivered: November 30, 2021
"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Delivered: January 19, 2022
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
Thomas Jefferson
Delivered: January 22, 2022
"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened."
Dr. Seuss
Delivered: January 25, 2022
"I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something's not good enough, and I won't stop until I feel like I've made it. I'm never satisfied."
J. Cole
Delivered: January 29, 2022
"You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That's a part of it."
Denzel Washington
Delivered: February 5, 2022
"I restore myself when I'm alone."
Marilyn Monroe
Delivered: February 8, 2022
"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."
Michael Jordan
Delivered: February 21, 2022
"When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost."
Billy Graham
Delivered: March 26, 2022
"What we have to do... is to find a way to celebrate our diversity and debate our differences without fracturing our communities."
Hillary Clinton
Delivered: April 1, 2022
"In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you."
Deepak Chopra
Delivered: April 13, 2022
"Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall."
Ray Bradbury
Delivered: April 18, 2022
"There's a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker."
Charles M. Schulz
Delivered: April 23, 2022
"Eighty percent of success is showing up."
Woody Allen
Delivered: May 7, 2022
"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown."
H. P. Lovecraft
Delivered: June 16, 2022
"The most wasted of all days is one without laughter."
e. e. cummings
Delivered: July 18, 2022
"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog."
Mark Twain
Delivered: July 21, 2022
"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it."
Henry Ford
Delivered: August 22, 2022
"We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time."
T. S. Eliot
Delivered: August 30, 2022
"The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing."
Stephen Covey
Delivered: September 19, 2022
"When 'American Pie' happened, I was so lucky to get that opportunity and I just tried to do a good job in that genre. But the films that inspired me as a kid were, like, Malcolm McDowall in 'A Clockwork Orange.' He was my hero."
Seann William Scott
Delivered: May 16, 2021
"The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Delivered: May 22, 2021
"How wonderful it is to be an American. We have known the best of times and the worst of times."
Maya Angelou
Delivered: July 11, 2021
"The truth is that the vast majority of Americans are good, fair, and just, and they want their country to reflect those ideals."
Kamala Harris
Delivered: July 31, 2021
"What troubles me most about my lovely country is that its children are seldom taught that American freedom will vanish, if, when they grow up, and in the exercise of their duties as citizens, they insist that our courts and policemen and prisons be guided by divine or natural law."
Kurt Vonnegut
Delivered: August 1, 2021
"As young West Point cadets, our motto was 'duty, honor, country.' But it was in the field, from the rice paddies of Southeast Asia to the sands of the Middle East, that I learned that motto's fullest meaning. There I saw gallant young Americans of every race, creed and background fight, and sometimes die, for 'duty, honor, and their country.'"
Norman Schwarzkopf
Delivered: August 6, 2021
"The accent got lost somewhere along the way. I'm a little embarrassed about it. When I arrived in LA I assumed I'd be able to put on the American accent. It proved difficult so I had six months working with a dialect coach and it's become a habit."
Martin Henderson
Delivered: August 11, 2021
"As American freemen, we cannot but sympathize in all efforts to extend the blessings of civil and political liberty, but at the same time, we are warned by the admonitions of history and the voice of our own beloved Washington to abstain from entangling alliances with foreign nations."
Zachary Taylor
Delivered: September 20, 2021
"Today we have a health insurance industry where the first and foremost goal is to maximize profits for shareholders and CEOs, not to cover patients who have fallen ill or to compensate doctors and hospitals for their services. It is an industry that is increasingly concentrated and where Americans are paying more to receive less."
Dianne Feinstein
Delivered: September 22, 2021
"We The People' is public domain, any American can use that."
Jake Hager
Delivered: September 28, 2021
"Hating Wall Street is an American tradition that dates back even to the days when Thomas Jefferson cursed that money lover Alexander Hamilton. And for centuries, the complaints about it have largely stayed the same: 'It does nothing! It creates chaos! It's a parasite that sucks hardworking Americans dry!'"
Adam Davidson
Delivered: October 17, 2021
"Americans, they have an incredible operatic tradition: the Metropolitan Opera House is - if not the most prestigious - one of the most prestigious opera houses in the world for over 100 years."
Jose Carreras
Delivered: October 21, 2021
"The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the cold war, is that the engine of capitalism, the individual, is mightier than any collective."
Rand Paul
Delivered: November 10, 2021
"There's something about an American soldier you can't explain. They're so grateful for anything, even a film actress coming to see them."
Marlene Dietrich
Delivered: November 17, 2021
"A war in the Taiwan Strait would destroy China's international relations overnight. It would destroy Chinese - Japanese relations, not to mention Chinese - American relations."
William C. Kirby
Delivered: November 24, 2021
"The white usurpation in our common country must be stopped, or we, its rightful owners, be forever destroyed and wiped out as a race of people. I am now at the head of many warriors backed by the strong arm of English soldiers. Choctaws and Chickasaws, you have too long borne with grievous usurpation inflicted by the arrogant Americans."
Tecumseh
Delivered: November 25, 2021
"Americans have a profound longing for heroes - now perhaps more than ever. We need our explorers, our sports icons, our Medal of Freedom winners, our Nobel laureates. We need our Greatest Generation warriors, our 'Sully' Sullenbergers, our Neil Armstrongs. On some level, we still subscribe to the myth of the man in the white hat."
Hampton Sides
Delivered: December 7, 2021
"It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common."
Stephen Fry
Delivered: December 24, 2021
"Liberal whites are the greatest enemy of African Americans."
James Meredith
Delivered: December 26, 2021
"Success isn't always about greatness. It's about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come."
Dwayne Johnson
Delivered: February 6, 2022
"The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose."
James Baldwin
Delivered: March 10, 2022
"It's just like, damn - I'm competing with myself."
Cardi B
Delivered: March 16, 2022
"We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented."
Elie Wiesel
Delivered: April 28, 2022
"You should never view your challenges as a disadvantage. Instead, it's important for you to understand that your experience facing and overcoming adversity is actually one of your biggest advantages."
Michelle Obama
Delivered: May 10, 2022
"The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward."
Amelia Earhart
Delivered: May 30, 2022
"The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity."
Ulysses S. Grant
Delivered: July 2, 2022
"Time has taught me that parents do the best they can with the light they are seeing with. That is what we all do."
Leslie Jordan
Delivered: July 25, 2022
"It's okay to eat fish because they don't have any feelings."
Kurt Cobain
Delivered: August 20, 2022
"Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist."
George Carlin
Delivered: September 4, 2022
"The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine."
Jeff Bezos
Delivered: September 15, 2022
"I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons."
Taylor Swift
Delivered: September 23, 2022
"An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting; and if he should chance to become warm in the discussion, he will say 'Gentlemen' to the person with whom he is conversing."
Alexis de Tocqueville
Delivered: May 24, 2021
"I no longer identify myself as Japanese or American but a 'citizen of the universe.'"
Ruth Asawa
Delivered: May 31, 2021
"We have to stick to the message: What are we proposing to the American people? Not, 'What are we fighting against?'"
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Delivered: June 18, 2021
"I like my subjects to be American, and not too dead, so I can interview people who knew them."
A. Scott Berg
Delivered: June 19, 2021
"I can think of nothing more American than to peacefully stand up or take a knee for your rights - anytime, anywhere, anyplace."
Beto O'Rourke
Delivered: July 9, 2021
"The devastating punch we took on September 11th still reverberates throughout American society."
Joe Biden
Delivered: August 8, 2021
"Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure."
Camille Paglia
Delivered: September 8, 2021
"In 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition. So nobody really thought much about quality. Why should they? The world bought everything America produced. It was a prescription for disaster."
W. Edwards Deming
Delivered: October 10, 2021
"The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle."
Alexis de Tocqueville
Delivered: October 13, 2021
"As time goes on we get closer to that American Dream of there being a pie cut up and shared. Usually greed and selfishness prevent that and there is always one bad apple in every barrel."
Rick Danko
Delivered: November 1, 2021
"Trump's behavior is deeply disturbing but hardly surprising. His mercurial nature is not the product of a post-inaugural adder sting at Mar-a-Lago. It's been there all along. And the American electorate chose him nonetheless."
Charles Krauthammer
Delivered: November 19, 2021
"My family is Native American, and I was raised with Native American ceremonies."
Eric Balfour
Delivered: December 2, 2021
"What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences, because it's not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history."
Barney Frank
Delivered: December 23, 2021
"Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked."
Warren Buffett
Delivered: February 4, 2022
"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them."
John F. Kennedy
Delivered: February 7, 2022
"A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way."
John C. Maxwell
Delivered: February 13, 2022
"We should not be flying a flag of a group who wants to erase our history and bring mass destruction to our country through Communism."
Marjorie Taylor Greene
Delivered: February 28, 2022
"A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money."
W. C. Fields
Delivered: March 4, 2022
"We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us."
Joseph Campbell
Delivered: March 5, 2022
"If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else."
Yogi Berra
Delivered: March 6, 2022
"True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country."
Kurt Vonnegut
Delivered: April 10, 2022
"You got to have a strong mind if you fall back. When you fall back, they going to count you out. So you got to have a strong mind and know your worth. When you come back, you've got to be different and even more better."
Lil Durk
Delivered: May 6, 2022
"Nobody on this earth is perfect. Everybody has their flaws; everybody has their dark secrets and vices."
Juice Wrld
Delivered: May 18, 2022
"The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it."
William James
Delivered: May 19, 2022
"You can't buy vision, and you can't buy aesthetic."
Travis Scott
Delivered: May 24, 2022
"She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind."
Toni Morrison
Delivered: June 6, 2022
"If I'm gonna tell a real story, I'm gonna start with my name."
Kendrick Lamar
Delivered: June 29, 2022
"I'm just myself. That's the best way to put it."
Post Malone
Delivered: July 4, 2022
"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose."
Jim Elliot
Delivered: July 15, 2022
"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it."
Steve Jobs
Delivered: August 2, 2022
"It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company."
George Washington
Delivered: August 9, 2022
"I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I'm out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
Marilyn Monroe
Delivered: August 27, 2022
"Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain."
Joseph Campbell
Delivered: September 21, 2022
"The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets."
John D. Rockefeller
Delivered: September 24, 2022
"Those who want to perpetuate apartheid also seek to divert your attention to the false issue of communism, to send the entire American public on a witch hunt."
Oliver Tambo
Delivered: May 28, 2021
"I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas."
Ron Paul
Delivered: June 3, 2021
"Gracious dying is a huge, macabre and expensive joke on the American public."
Jessica Mitford
Delivered: July 4, 2021
"If the leading Negro classes cannot assume and bear the uplift of their own proletariat, they are doomed for all time. It is not a case of ethics; it is a plain case of necessity. The method by which this may be done is, first, for the American Negro to achieve a new economic solidarity."
W. E. B. Du Bois
Delivered: July 28, 2021
"A cashless society promises a world of limitation, control, and surveillance - all of which the poorest Americans already have in abundance, of course. For the most vulnerable, the cashless society offers nothing substantively new; it only extends the reach of the existing paternal bureaucratic state."
Sarah Jeong
Delivered: August 4, 2021
"Envy is the central fact of American life."
Gore Vidal
Delivered: August 24, 2021
"By disgracing and degrading the presidency of the United States, by fleeing the White House like a diseased cur, Richard Nixon broke the heart of the American Dream."
Hunter S. Thompson
Delivered: September 7, 2021
"Donald Trump has had several foreign wives. It turns out that there really are jobs Americans won't do."
Mitt Romney
Delivered: October 1, 2021
"The legal principle placing the burden of proof on accusers rather than the accused can be traced back to Second and Third Century Roman jurist, Julius Paulus Prudentissimus. Yet, this ancient concept, which forms the legal and moral cornerstone of the American judicial system, is quickly being undermined in the name of 'national security.'"
Bob Barr
Delivered: October 16, 2021
"Steve Morse is a very good guitar player, but he's American, and he's using humbucker pickups. If you ask me, those two are not good."
Yngwie Malmsteen
Delivered: October 20, 2021
"If you go back in American history, oysters were the food of poor people. New York was filled with oyster saloons in the 1800s."
Ruth Reichl
Delivered: October 26, 2021
"On the surface, I've created a good life. I've lived the American dream. But I am still an undocumented immigrant."
Jose Antonio Vargas
Delivered: November 27, 2021
"Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose."
Bill Gates
Delivered: January 17, 2022
"Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Delivered: January 20, 2022
"I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not."
Kurt Cobain
Delivered: February 1, 2022
"It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong."
Thomas Sowell
Delivered: February 10, 2022
"Either you run the day or the day runs you."
Jim Rohn
Delivered: March 1, 2022
"The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do."
Kobe Bryant
Delivered: March 18, 2022
"I think the thing to do is enjoy the ride while you're on it."
Johnny Depp
Delivered: April 6, 2022
"At the end of the day, life is about being happy being who you are, and I feel like we are so blessed to have the support system and the best family to really just support each other no matter what we're going through."
Kim Kardashian
Delivered: May 15, 2022
"I gotta keep hustling. I know when it comes to the Internet, we move units. I grew up on the Internet."
Meek Mill
Delivered: May 31, 2022
"Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality."
Emily Dickinson
Delivered: June 5, 2022
"I'm wide open to getting married, but actors are not easy people to date. You end up sharing that person with this other mistress that is their career. I very much like the traditional courtship method of making a date. That's what they do in normal places, but Hollywood's not normal."
Seth MacFarlane
Delivered: June 18, 2022
"Republican comes in the dictionary just after reptile and just above repugnant."
Julia Roberts
Delivered: June 28, 2022
"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."
Henry David Thoreau
Delivered: July 26, 2022
"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."
Benjamin Franklin
Delivered: July 30, 2022
"If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress."
Barack Obama
Delivered: July 31, 2022
"I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times."
Bruce Lee
Delivered: August 4, 2022
"An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs. You should never see an Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order sign, just Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for the convenience."
Mitch Hedberg
Delivered: August 15, 2022
"If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way."
Napoleon Hill
Delivered: August 19, 2022
"Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago."
Warren Buffett
Delivered: August 23, 2022
"When I did 'Bird,' it was a surprise to some people, first because I wasn't in it and second because most of the films I'd been doing were cop movies or westerns or adventure films, so to be doing one about Charlie Parker, who was a great influence on American music, was a great thrill for me."
Clint Eastwood
Delivered: May 25, 2021
"Evangelical Christian politicians who cheat often raise questions about hypocrisy, especially if they preached piety in public and disregarded it in private. When Jewish politicians fall, they shatter different expectations, particularly that American Jews need to work together to preserve respectability and fireproof against anti-Semitism."
Jodi Kantor
Delivered: May 19, 2021
"I think a lot of the American people feel more than a little disappointed that the high-water mark for human exploration was 1969. The dream of human space travel has almost died for a lot of people."
Elon Musk
Delivered: May 29, 2021
"The American women are very pretty and have great simplicity of character, and the extreme neatness of their appearance is truly delightful: cleanliness is everywhere even more studiously attended to here than in England."
Marquis de Lafayette
Delivered: May 27, 2021
"If we think we have ours and don't owe any time or money or effort to help those left behind, then we are a part of the problem rather than the solution to the fraying social fabric that threatens all Americans."
Marian Wright Edelman
Delivered: June 14, 2021
"It's something you dream about, working in Scotland, working in Glasgow, walking down the same streets I used to walk down when I was a drama student, daydreaming about being in an American TV show or doing something that was well known. I guess I sort of pinch myself."
Sam Heughan
Delivered: June 22, 2021
"I was really upset because I was branded as an enemy alien when I'm an American."
Fred Korematsu
Delivered: June 24, 2021
"Joe Biden's nomination of gun-grabber David Chipman, who wants to ban, confiscate, and destroy the most popular self-defense and hunting rifle in America owned by millions of American patriots, is a clear indication that the ATF's war on gun owners is just beginning and is about to crank up."
Marjorie Taylor Greene
Delivered: July 29, 2021
"There is only one thing that gives me hope as a Republican, and that is the Democrats. It's going to be hard to do a worse job running American than the Republicans have, but if anybody can do it, it's the Democrats."
P. J. O'Rourke
Delivered: July 30, 2021
"Without going outside his race, and even among the better classes with their 'white' culture and conscious American manners, but still Negro enough to be different, there is sufficient matter to furnish a black artist with a lifetime of creative work."
Langston Hughes
Delivered: August 15, 2021
"As both a career intelligence officer and as an American citizen, I am a strong believer in the importance of oversight. Simply put, experience has taught us that CIA cannot be effective without the people's trust, and we cannot hope to earn that trust without the accountability that comes with Congressional oversight."
Gina Haspel
Delivered: August 16, 2021
"The people who tend to raise antiwar slogans will do so generally when it's American or British interests involved."
Christopher Hitchens
Delivered: September 13, 2021
"If you want to know why the towers of American capitalism are crumbling, I recommend reading 'The Creature from Jekyll Island' by G. Edward Griffin."
Robert Kiyosaki
Delivered: September 26, 2021
"The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime."
Chuck Palahniuk
Delivered: October 11, 2021
"The dangerous American fascist is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way."
Henry A. Wallace
Delivered: October 15, 2021
"American sports are quite masculine. And football - although it's still played by men all over the world - football compared to American football is quite feminine in its artistry. And there's no padding. It's America's loss, though."
Noel Gallagher
Delivered: October 23, 2021
"Young feminists have been sold a bill of goods about American feminism. The enormous changes in women over the past 40 years are constantly and falsely attributed to the organized women's movement of the late 1960s and '70s."
Camille Paglia
Delivered: December 11, 2021
"Do we believe housing is a right and that affordable housing is part of what it should mean to be an American? I say yes."
Matthew Desmond
Delivered: December 13, 2021
"When I heard 'Jesus, Take the Wheel,' I was like, OK. Some people look at it as a song written for an American Idol, Carrie Underwood, who is wonderful. But when you're a songwriter listening to a song, you hear something else. I heard that song, and wow."
Lady Gaga
Delivered: December 16, 2021
"We're giving our freedoms away. The American experiment was about freedom. Freedom to be stupid, freedom to fail, freedom to succeed."
Glenn Beck
Delivered: December 22, 2021
"Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you."
Walt Whitman
Delivered: January 23, 2022
"Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives."
James Madison
Delivered: February 24, 2022
"It sounds simple telling people to work hard and never quit, but to really execute and demonstrate those principles takes discipline and faith. Those are the two factors that I believe separate the good from the great, the successes from the failures."
Nipsey Hussle
Delivered: March 9, 2022
"As a born-again Christian, I believe God actively and directly influences me to action."
Herschel Walker
Delivered: March 15, 2022
"A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week."
George S. Patton
Delivered: March 24, 2022
"Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power."
Clint Eastwood
Delivered: April 4, 2022
"The best way to predict the future is to create it."
Peter Drucker
Delivered: June 2, 2022
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
Margaret Mead
Delivered: June 11, 2022
"A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying."
B. F. Skinner
Delivered: June 23, 2022
"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today."
Abraham Lincoln
Delivered: July 23, 2022
"Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others."
Groucho Marx
Delivered: August 1, 2022
"What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Delivered: August 8, 2022
"Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes."
Walt Whitman
Delivered: August 11, 2022
"The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."
Hunter S. Thompson
Delivered: September 8, 2022
"Though I have drawn my sword in the present generous struggle for the rights of men, yet I am not in arms as an American, nor am I in pursuit of riches. My fortune is liberal enough, having no wife nor family, and having lived long enough to know that riches cannot ensure happiness."
John Paul Jones
Delivered: June 16, 2021
"In spite of our agonizing history, Native American people find much to celebrate. The songs, the dances, the culture and traditions surrounding planting and harvests, the prayers that are sent upward for healing and peace, and the welcoming of children into our families, are all reasons for us to keep moving forward with optimism."
Deb Haaland
Delivered: July 15, 2021
"Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap - let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice."
Abraham Lincoln
Delivered: August 3, 2021
"Putin's Russia is our adversary and moral opposite. It is committed to the destruction of the post-war, rule-based world order built on American leadership and the primacy of our political and economic values."
John McCain
Delivered: August 5, 2021
"By 2007, 85% of Americans cited climate change as an important issue, compared with just 33% in prior years. The phrase we invented, 'An Inconvenient Truth,' became a part of the lexicon."
Jeffrey Skoll
Delivered: August 28, 2021
"To the American people I say, awaken to what is happening. It is the duty of each citizen to be vigilant, to protect liberty, to speak out, left and right and disagree lest be trampled underfoot by misguided zealotry and extreme partisanship."
Robert Byrd
Delivered: August 29, 2021
"I'd like to make really important movies, like American Beauty. I was really proud to be a part of that movie."
Allison Janney
Delivered: September 10, 2021
"Working-class Americans want a clear champion, and there is nothing radical about moral clarity in 2018."
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Delivered: September 29, 2021
"When I wrote 'Pink Houses,' nobody was talking about that, right? The next thing I know, you can't see the TV without hearing commercials with 'Listen to the heartbeat of America,' or 'Born the American way.' That whole America thing now - I hate it."
John Mellencamp
Delivered: November 2, 2021
"I don't concentrate on any one period of history; I like to locate my stories in wildly different eras and places. I seem to be drawn to large, sprawling, uncomfortable swaths of American history, finding embedded within them a tight narrative that involves strife, heroism, and survival under difficult circumstances."
Hampton Sides
Delivered: November 5, 2021
"By the '40s, Sam Goldwyn is a very serious man. By the '50s, he's the dean of American producers. To the end, he was Hollywood's gray eminence."
A. Scott Berg
Delivered: November 14, 2021
"I believe in the American promise and I think is up to those of us who have been honored with the opportunity to represent the people of our state to make that promise true for every American."
Raphael Warnock
Delivered: November 23, 2021
"A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work."
Colin Powell
Delivered: April 8, 2022
"The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate."
Oprah Winfrey
Delivered: April 11, 2022
"The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you."
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Delivered: April 12, 2022
"Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another."
Thomas Merton
Delivered: May 4, 2022
"People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do."
Isaac Asimov
Delivered: June 1, 2022
"I'd like to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair."
Bette Davis
Delivered: June 10, 2022
"Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art."
Andy Warhol
Delivered: June 13, 2022
"The reason there's so many gay people now is because it's a chemical warfare operation, and I have the government documents where they said they're going to encourage homosexuality with chemicals so that people don't have children."
Alex Jones
Delivered: June 15, 2022
"Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy."
Norman Vincent Peale
Delivered: July 9, 2022
"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."
Anais Nin
Delivered: July 19, 2022
"Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground."
Theodore Roosevelt
Delivered: July 27, 2022
"Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth."
Mike Tyson
Delivered: August 28, 2022
"All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them."
Walt Disney
Delivered: September 6, 2022
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
Frederick Douglass
Delivered: September 14, 2022
"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment."
Jim Rohn
Delivered: September 17, 2022
"To the Parisians, and especially to the children, all Americans are now 'heros du cinema.' This is particularly disconcerting to sensitive war correspondents, if any, aware, as they are, that these innocent thanks belong to those American combat troops who won the beachhead and then made the breakthrough. There are few such men in Paris."
A. J. Liebling
Delivered: June 9, 2021
"For some people, the definition of who is and who isn't an American defies logic, historical accuracy, common sense, decency, good manners, the milk of human kindness, enjoyment in the good things in life, and love of good food."
W. Kamau Bell
Delivered: May 18, 2021
"Export anything to a friendly country except American management."
W. Edwards Deming
Delivered: June 5, 2021
"We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people."
John F. Kennedy
Delivered: July 3, 2021
"The real truth is that the Obama administration is professional at bullying, as we have witnessed with ACORN at work during the presidential campaign. It seems to me they are sending down their bullies to create fist fights among average American citizens who don't want a government-run health care plan forced upon them."
Jon Voight
Delivered: August 2, 2021
"I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I've done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?"
Douglas MacArthur
Delivered: August 17, 2021
"It behooves every American to encourage home manufactures, that our oppressors may feel through their pockets the effects of their blind folly."
Samuel Adams
Delivered: August 18, 2021
"I grew up in a storytelling culture, a tribal culture, but also in an American storytelling culture."
Sherman Alexie
Delivered: August 31, 2021
"From an early period, I had the happiness to rank among the foremost in the American Revolution. In the affection and confidence of the people, I am proud to say, I have a great share."
Marquis de Lafayette
Delivered: September 3, 2021
"The American multinational companies made millions and millions of dollars from globalization."
Jack Ma
Delivered: September 17, 2021
"The labor movement means just this: it is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth."
Wendell Phillips
Delivered: September 23, 2021
"We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans."
Max Beerbohm
Delivered: October 6, 2021
"The Left only worries about people who don't want to work; they could care less. They cater more to people who are here illegally, and they care more about the feelings of countries that would love to see us wiped off the face of the Earth than they do hard-working Americans. It's ridiculous."
Donald Trump, Jr.
Delivered: October 9, 2021
"One of our books has been made into a musical, 'The Great American Mousical,' which I directed at the Goodspeed Opera House in Connecticut. And another, 'Simeon's Gift,' has been adapted for a symphony orchestra and five performers. I'm also a very proud member of the board of the Los Angeles Philharmonic."
Julie Andrews
Delivered: October 30, 2021
"When more Americans prefer freebies to freedom, these great United States will become a fertile ground for tyranny."
Allen West
Delivered: December 18, 2021
"As a newcomer to America who learned to 'speak American' by watching movies, I firmly believe that to change the politics of immigration and citizenship, we must change culture - the way we portray undocumented people like me and our role in society."
Jose Antonio Vargas
Delivered: December 20, 2021
"As far as I'm concerned, the more power we push back to the patient, the individual, the American citizen, the more responsive the system is to her needs. 'Obamacare,is responsive' is like a hammer is responsive to a piece of glass."
Bill Cassidy
Delivered: December 25, 2021
"I fell out of the womb and landed in my mother's high heels."
Leslie Jordan
Delivered: January 6, 2022
"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."
Henry David Thoreau
Delivered: January 7, 2022
"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek."
Barack Obama
Delivered: January 12, 2022
"Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it."
Bruce Lee
Delivered: January 16, 2022
"Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable."
Joe Biden
Delivered: January 18, 2022
"If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself."
Henry Ford
Delivered: February 3, 2022
"The only rule is don't be boring and dress cute wherever you go. Life is too short to blend in."
Paris Hilton
Delivered: February 25, 2022
"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men."
Frederick Douglass
Delivered: February 26, 2022
"There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter."
Ernest Hemingway
Delivered: March 2, 2022
"I used to think that the worst thing in life was to end up alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel alone."
Robin Williams
Delivered: March 17, 2022
"We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology."
Carl Sagan
Delivered: March 22, 2022
"What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself."
Abraham Maslow
Delivered: March 29, 2022
"Life is a series of commas, not periods."
Matthew McConaughey
Delivered: April 19, 2022
"If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand."
Milton Friedman
Delivered: April 21, 2022
"I believe that every American should have stable, dignified housing; health care; education - that the most very basic needs to sustain modern life should be guaranteed in a moral society."
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Delivered: May 11, 2022
"Sometimes you make the right decision, sometimes you make the decision right."
Phil McGraw
Delivered: May 23, 2022
"Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons."
R. Buckminster Fuller
Delivered: May 25, 2022
"I've never been particularly aware of my age. It's like being on a bicycle - I just put my foot down and keep going."
Angela Lansbury
Delivered: June 9, 2022
"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit."
Harry S Truman
Delivered: June 14, 2022
"The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency."
Bill Gates
Delivered: August 5, 2022
"The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand."
Vince Lombardi
Delivered: September 2, 2022
"I like American women. They do things sexually Russian girls never dream of doing - like showering."
Yakov Smirnoff
Delivered: August 10, 2021
"To me, race is the single most divisive factor affecting American society. It's an issue that we are afraid of, that we shy away from, and quite frankly, it amuses me that we are so sensitive to the issue."
Ron Stallworth
Delivered: August 19, 2021
"Life is very important to Americans."
Bob Dole
Delivered: September 4, 2021
"I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war."
Lyndon B. Johnson
Delivered: September 18, 2021
"America is a nation founded by immigrants and built on the ideal that anyone can be an American if he or she believes in the principles and values of the Constitution."
Ted Lieu
Delivered: October 2, 2021
"And that means that no matter how we reform health care, we will keep this promise to the American people: If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor, period. If you like your health care plan, you'll be able to keep your health care plan, period. No one will take it away, no matter what."
Barack Obama
Delivered: October 5, 2021
"When I cook for my family on Christmas, I make feijoada, a South American dish of roasted and smoked meats like ham, pork, beef, lamb, and bacon - all served with black beans and rice. It's festive but different."
Maya Angelou
Delivered: October 12, 2021
"Because the Internet is so new, we still don't really understand what it is. We mistake it for a type of publishing or broadcasting, because that's what we're used to. So people complain that there's a lot of rubbish online, or that it's dominated by Americans, or that you can't necessarily trust what you read on the Web."
Douglas Adams
Delivered: October 18, 2021
"The beauty of our democracy lies in the American value of equality: if you vote, you have a seat at the table. If you speak, you have a chance to persuade others. A billionaire and a minimum wage earner have the same power at the ballot box."
Christine Pelosi
Delivered: November 3, 2021
"Of all the American educational system's problems, none is more severe than the academic year beginning before Labor Day."
P. J. O'Rourke
Delivered: November 16, 2021
"The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams."
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Delivered: November 18, 2021
"President Biden should put Americans First."
Marjorie Taylor Greene
Delivered: November 26, 2021
"I do not hesitate one second to state clearly and unmistakably: I belong to the American resistance movement which fights against American imperialism, just as the resistance movement fought against Hitler."
Paul Robeson
Delivered: November 29, 2021
"If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Delivered: December 8, 2021
"Americans like fat books and thin women."
Russell Baker
Delivered: January 1, 2022
"Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them."
Bob Dylan
Delivered: February 15, 2022
"A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well."
Jeff Bezos
Delivered: February 27, 2022
"All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume."
Noam Chomsky
Delivered: March 30, 2022
"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday."
John Wayne
Delivered: April 16, 2022
"The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time."
Jack London
Delivered: April 29, 2022
"The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed."
Eminem
Delivered: April 30, 2022
"Instant gratification takes too long."
Carrie Fisher
Delivered: May 5, 2022
"The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more."
Jonas Salk
Delivered: May 29, 2022
"Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended."
George W. Bush
Delivered: June 3, 2022
"Saying, 'I'm sorry' is the same as saying, ' I apologize.' Except at a funeral."
Demetri Martin
Delivered: June 7, 2022
"The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination."
Carl Rogers
Delivered: June 20, 2022
"When my time on earth is gone, and my activities here are passed, I want they bury me upside down, and my critics can kiss my ass!"
Bobby Knight
Delivered: June 26, 2022
"I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat."
Will Rogers
Delivered: August 21, 2022
"It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance."
Thomas Sowell
Delivered: August 29, 2022
"In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Delivered: September 5, 2022
"But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated."
Ernest Hemingway
Delivered: September 18, 2022
"People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them."
James Baldwin
Delivered: September 26, 2022
"I have a message for Democrats, including Joe Biden: the time of demeaning and destroying conservative Americans simply for their beliefs has come to an end."
Marjorie Taylor Greene
Delivered: May 23, 2021
"You can be a Polish American, or an Arab American, or a Greek American but you can't be English American. Why not?"
Christopher Hitchens
Delivered: June 2, 2021
"Religious freedom opens a door for Americans that is closed to too many others around the world. But whether we walk through that door, and what we do with our lives after we do, is up to us."
Mitt Romney
Delivered: June 4, 2021
"I don't care whether you're driving a hybrid or an SUV. If you're headed for a cliff, you have to change direction. That's what the American people called for in November, and that's what we intend to deliver."
Barack Obama
Delivered: June 7, 2021
"The American Dream, the idea of the happy ending, is an avoidance of responsibility and commitment."
Jill Robinson
Delivered: June 11, 2021
"If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience."
Tallulah Bankhead
Delivered: July 13, 2021
"I was really interested in the way in which poverty and economic stagnation were transforming and corrupting the American narrative."
Lynn Nottage
Delivered: September 27, 2021
"Sometimes I'll put on a Zig Ziglar tape: he's a motivational speaker who is really funny and really American. I know I should do the things he says, but I'm too cynical."
Laila Rouass
Delivered: September 30, 2021
"I was a supporting character in other people's lives, which seemed right and familiar to me. I was also an outsider: English in the U.S., American in England, dogged yet comforted by that familiar feeling of alien-ness, which occupied that space where my sense of self should have been."
Allegra Huston
Delivered: October 3, 2021
"America has absorbed people from around the world, and there is an Indian in every part of the world. This characterizes both the societies. Indians and Americans have co-existed in their natural temperament."
Narendra Modi
Delivered: October 4, 2021
"Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens. So we don't like the notion that anyone might get a free pass to American citizenship."
Barack Obama
Delivered: October 28, 2021
"It's wrong, and it's racist, and it's bigoted to say that guns are quintessentially American."
Alan Dershowitz
Delivered: November 28, 2021
"The food I've liked in my time is American country cookin'."
Colonel Sanders
Delivered: December 21, 2021
"Explain to me what Italian-American culture is. We've been here 100 years. Isn't Italian-American culture American culture? That's because we're so diverse, in terms of intermarriage."
Al Pacino
Delivered: December 30, 2021
"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."
Hunter S. Thompson
Delivered: February 20, 2022
"No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind."
Taylor Swift
Delivered: March 7, 2022
"Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great."
John D. Rockefeller
Delivered: March 8, 2022
"Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation."
Michael Jackson
Delivered: April 14, 2022
"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain."
Dolly Parton
Delivered: April 25, 2022
"The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks."
Mark Zuckerberg
Delivered: May 27, 2022
"There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love."
Washington Irving
Delivered: July 14, 2022
"If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it."
Lucy Larcom
Delivered: July 20, 2022
"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."
Helen Keller
Delivered: July 28, 2022
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Delivered: August 7, 2022
"I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds."
J. Cole
Delivered: August 17, 2022
"The Holocaust is - there's nothing comparable to it."
Marjorie Taylor Greene
Delivered: September 16, 2022
"Ted Cruz is a patriot. He believes in what he does. He's done marvels in mobilizing conservatives, mobilizing Americans concerned about the direction of the ever-expanding entitlement state under Obama, and particularly the threat it is to freedom. I disagree with his tactics, but I agree entirely with his objectives."
Charles Krauthammer
Delivered: June 8, 2021
"Nixon represents that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character almost every other country in the world has learned to fear and despise."
Hunter S. Thompson
Delivered: June 10, 2021
"I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves."
Harlan Coben
Delivered: June 17, 2021
"The government adoption of AI will not bring about a government being run by robots. Instead, our government will continue to be run by people, with help from algorithms dramatically improving government services for all Americans."
Will Hurd
Delivered: June 21, 2021
"Americans expect us to go to Washington for the right reason, and not just to mingle with the right people."
Sarah Palin
Delivered: July 20, 2021
"There's very little dislike of Americans in the world, shown by repeated polls, and the dissatisfaction - that is, the hatred and the anger - they come from acceptance of American values, not a rejection of them, and recognition that they're rejected by the U.S. government and by U.S. elites, which does lead to hatred and anger."
Noam Chomsky
Delivered: July 27, 2021
"I'm going to try to unite all Americans."
Barack Obama
Delivered: September 9, 2021
"First, I think more Americans need to declare their independence from partisan politics on both sides. The more that Americans declare their independence, the more the parties will have to compete for their votes using reason rather than the hateful appeals."
John Avlon
Delivered: September 15, 2021
"Harry Truman's decision to fire Douglas MacArthur at the height of the Korean War in April 1951 shocked the American political system and astonished the world. Much of the world didn't realize the president had the power to fire a five-star general; much of America didn't realize Truman had the nerve."
H. W. Brands
Delivered: October 19, 2021
"And I believe that if we can care about whether or not our neighbor has a good job or access to affordable health care for their children, and we move to implement the policies that can improve these situations, we will unleash vast amounts of human potential and recapture the American spirit."
Tim Ryan
Delivered: October 24, 2021
"The Vietnamese see their history as an unending series of struggles of resistance to aggression, by the Chinese, the Mongols, the Japanese, the French, and now the Americans."
Noam Chomsky
Delivered: November 11, 2021
"I made a movie to explain to the American public what had been achieved in regards to disarmament of Iraq and why inspectors aren't in Iraq today and detailing the very complex, murky history of interaction between Iraq, the United Nations and the United States. It is most definitely not a pro-Iraq movie. It is a pro-truth movie."
Scott Ritter
Delivered: November 12, 2021
"At one time, you could sit on the Rue de la Paix in Paris or at the Habima Theater in Tel Aviv or in Medina and you could see a person come in, black, white, it didn't matter. You said, 'That's an American' because there's a readiness to smile and to talk to people."
Maya Angelou
Delivered: November 22, 2021
"How do we prevent Iran developing an atomic bomb, when, on the American side, dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki is not recognised as a war crime?"
Gunter Grass
Delivered: December 1, 2021
"Believe you can and you're halfway there."
Theodore Roosevelt
Delivered: January 8, 2022
"If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter."
George Washington
Delivered: January 21, 2022
"Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?"
T. S. Eliot
Delivered: February 11, 2022
"A promise must never be broken."
Alexander Hamilton
Delivered: March 14, 2022
"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."
Les Brown
Delivered: March 19, 2022
"I've learned how to use my spam filter pretty effectively."
Al Yankovic
Delivered: July 8, 2022
"Nothing in life is promised except death."
Kanye West
Delivered: July 24, 2022
"Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen."
Michael Jordan
Delivered: September 9, 2022
"In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is."
Yogi Berra
Delivered: September 22, 2022
"Know thyself. Remain steadfast. Follow your dreams. These are great directives and perfectly fitting for graduates. But reality is that achieving dreams takes a solid education - education that remains elusive for too many Americans."
Dorothy Bush Koch
Delivered: May 20, 2021
"In the heart of the Great Depression, millions of American workers did something they'd never done before: they joined a union. Emboldened by the passage of the Wagner Act, which made collective bargaining easier, unions organized industries across the country, remaking the economy."
James Surowiecki
Delivered: May 21, 2021
"We Americans think, in every country in transition, there's a Thomas Jefferson hiding behind some rock or a James Madison beyond one sand dune."
Joe Biden
Delivered: June 1, 2021
"When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object."
Patrick Henry
Delivered: June 26, 2021
"We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it means danger, revolution, anarchy."
Henry Miller
Delivered: June 30, 2021
"I am proud to be an American Citizen."
Robert Purvis
Delivered: July 8, 2021
"Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We'll break out of it. It takes time."
Warren Buffett
Delivered: July 25, 2021
"Nearly half of the American population is eagerly anticipating the end of the world. This dewy-eyed nihilism provides absolutely no incentive to build a sustainable civilization. Many of these people are lunatics, but they are not the lunatic fringe."
Sam Harris
Delivered: August 9, 2021
"I think the American people, with some justification, think that most politicians live in la-la land."
John Kennedy
Delivered: August 27, 2021
"I produced the Buckcherry album and I just finished a band called American Pearl on Wind-Up Records. That's Creed's label. They're pretty rocking. Now I'm looking for another band to produce."
Steve Jones
Delivered: September 1, 2021
"President Obama's biggest advocates believe that Americans are ready to embrace his vision for the United States: a less muscular America on the world stage, an America with a more controlling executive branch and less conflict in the legislative branch, an America in which the government takes care of us, be we Pajama Boys or Julias."
Ben Shapiro
Delivered: September 21, 2021
"I consider myself to be as informed on American foreign policy as anyone in America."
Joe Biden
Delivered: October 29, 2021
"Bathtub falls and police officers kill more Americans than terrorism, yet we've been asked to sacrifice our most sacred rights for fear of falling victim to it."
Edward Snowden
Delivered: October 31, 2021
"My favourite moment from the Oscars was when Brando didn't attend and sent a Native American woman to talk about Wounded Knee. She delivered a very unpopular and lengthy monologue about the injustice for indigenous people in North America. It was one of the greatest moments in American television."
Anohni
Delivered: November 7, 2021
"The right to a trial is a core principle of the American legal system. Depriving Americans of these essential liberties undermines the Constitution while doing nothing to strengthen our national security."
John Garamendi
Delivered: December 3, 2021
"Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults."
Gore Vidal
Delivered: December 5, 2021
"By the end of the 1950s, American cars were so reliable that their reliability went without saying even in car ads. Thousands of them bear testimony to this today, still running on the roads of Cuba though fueled with nationalized Venezuelan gasoline and maintained with spit and haywire."
P. J. O'Rourke
Delivered: December 9, 2021
"The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt."
Barack Obama
Delivered: December 14, 2021
"Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right."
Abraham Lincoln
Delivered: January 4, 2022
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same."
Ronald Reagan
Delivered: January 10, 2022
"We loved with a love that was more than love."
Edgar Allan Poe
Delivered: January 28, 2022
"The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires."
William Arthur Ward
Delivered: February 19, 2022
"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard."
H. L. Mencken
Delivered: February 22, 2022
"I'm a mirror. If you're cool with me, I'm cool with you, and the exchange starts. What you see is what you reflect. If you don't like what you see, then you've done something. If I'm standoffish, that's because you are."
Jay-Z
Delivered: March 21, 2022
"Whoever controls the media, controls the mind."
Jim Morrison
Delivered: March 23, 2022
"Quality is everyone's responsibility."
W. Edwards Deming
Delivered: April 7, 2022
"In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Delivered: April 15, 2022
"A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines."
Frank Lloyd Wright
Delivered: May 1, 2022
"I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life."
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Delivered: May 12, 2022
"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it."
Lou Holtz
Delivered: May 22, 2022
"The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire."
Richard M. Nixon
Delivered: May 26, 2022
"We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone."
Orson Welles
Delivered: June 19, 2022
"Never underestimate the power of human stupidity."
Robert A. Heinlein
Delivered: June 25, 2022
"Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive."
Elbert Hubbard
Delivered: June 30, 2022
"Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories."
Steven Wright
Delivered: August 3, 2022
"The single most powerful thing I can be is to be myself."
Dwayne Johnson
Delivered: August 25, 2022
"Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth."
Muhammad Ali
Delivered: August 31, 2022
"People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude."
John C. Maxwell
Delivered: September 1, 2022
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong."
H. L. Mencken
Delivered: September 10, 2022
"If men were angels, no government would be necessary."
James Madison
Delivered: September 12, 2022
"Sometimes you have to take two steps back to take ten forward."
Nipsey Hussle
Delivered: September 25, 2022
"I read an article that said one in five Americans thinks Elvis is alive. I want to find those morons and get them registered to vote for me."
Pat Paulsen
Delivered: June 12, 2021
"Here was buried Thomas Jefferson Author of the Declaration of American Independence Of the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom & Father of the University of Virginia."
Thomas Jefferson
Delivered: June 23, 2021
"Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead."
Sinclair Lewis
Delivered: July 12, 2021
"Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American hero."
Morgan Freeman
Delivered: July 14, 2021
"If we don't empower families to be able to have a quality education, then their children - for the first time in American history, truly the first time - will not have the same economic opportunities."
Jeb Bush
Delivered: July 16, 2021
"Except for naval and air exercises, our military should be stationed on American soil, where service men and women can lead normal lives in close proximity to family and friends."
Camille Paglia
Delivered: July 18, 2021
"I let the American people down."
Richard M. Nixon
Delivered: July 26, 2021
"Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Delivered: August 7, 2021
"I used to say to my late wife, 'I have great faith in the American people.'"
Joe Biden
Delivered: September 14, 2021
"The Gun Owner Privacy Act protects the right to keep and bear arms by preventing the Feds from collecting data to monitor and log gun ownership in America. This legislation will give Americans legal recourse and the ability to sue the Feds and collect damages for records illegally stored."
Marjorie Taylor Greene
Delivered: September 16, 2021
"Banning guns addresses a fundamental right of all Americans to feel safe."
Dianne Feinstein
Delivered: October 25, 2021
"In Texas, the rangers were established on an ad hoc basis in the 1820s to protect the settlers making inroads into Spanish borderlands. Soon, Mexicans and Mexican Americans replaced Native Americans as the prime target of ranger repression."
Greg Grandin
Delivered: November 6, 2021
"The United States was born in revolution and nurtured by struggle. Throughout our history, the American people have befriended and supported all those who seek independence and a better way of life."
Robert Kennedy
Delivered: November 8, 2021
"I started cooking seven years ago for real, and I started with pasta, and lasagna and roast chicken. Very normal American dishes. When I turned on Food Network, or any sort of cooking channel, that's what people were making. So that's where your education comes from."
Aarti Sequeira
Delivered: November 15, 2021
"The American dream is about freedom."
Nancy Pelosi
Delivered: December 10, 2021
"No one under international copyright law has the right to depict me or my husband without our consent. I have been surprised by the many people, particularly Americans, who are either writing books or going to produce films about the Mandela family without even bothering to consult us."
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
Delivered: December 29, 2021
"When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time."
Maya Angelou
Delivered: January 3, 2022
"If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don't appreciate the moment until it's passed."
Kanye West
Delivered: January 5, 2022
"Why don't they make the whole plane out of that black box stuff."
Steven Wright
Delivered: January 15, 2022
"Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude."
Zig Ziglar
Delivered: January 24, 2022
"I feel like whatever is meant is meant. I feel like this is already written."
Lil Baby
Delivered: January 26, 2022
"Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence."
Vince Lombardi
Delivered: February 14, 2022
"Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things."
George Carlin
Delivered: February 16, 2022
"If you can dream it, you can do it."
Walt Disney
Delivered: February 18, 2022
"If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."
Wayne Dyer
Delivered: February 23, 2022
"To all my little Hulkamaniacs, say your prayers, take your vitamins and you will never go wrong."
Hulk Hogan
Delivered: March 31, 2022
"I'm not trying to be sexy. It's just my way of expressing myself when I move around."
Elvis Presley
Delivered: April 3, 2022
"Youth is something I never wanna take for granted. I just want to smile and live life."
Tyler, The Creator
Delivered: April 9, 2022
"You know, all that really matters is that the people you love are happy and healthy. Everything else is just sprinkles on the sundae."
Paul Walker
Delivered: April 17, 2022
"Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy."
Dale Carnegie
Delivered: April 22, 2022
"The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink."
Fran Lebowitz
Delivered: May 16, 2022
"I'm just doing me, and to me, that's what got me this far."
Lil Uzi Vert
Delivered: June 8, 2022
"The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it."
P. J. O'Rourke
Delivered: June 24, 2022
"You don't take a photograph, you make it."
Ansel Adams
Delivered: July 7, 2022
"Be not afraid of discomfort. If you can't put yourself in a situation where you are uncomfortable, then you will never grow. You will never change. You'll never learn."
Jason Reynolds
Delivered: July 12, 2022
"My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style."
Maya Angelou
Delivered: July 22, 2022
"Corruption is a cancer: a cancer that eats away at a citizen's faith in democracy, diminishes the instinct for innovation and creativity; already-tight national budgets, crowding out important national investments. It wastes the talent of entire generations. It scares away investments and jobs."
Joe Biden
Delivered: August 6, 2022
"Man gives you the award but God gives you the reward."
Denzel Washington
Delivered: August 24, 2022
"Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice."
Wayne Dyer
Delivered: September 11, 2022
"Nashville is wicked. It's like a proper music community, but it's also quintessentially American. You bump into people there with cowboy hats that spit in jars and call you 'boy.' I just love that."
Ed Sheeran
Delivered: May 30, 2021
"Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it costs them."
John Updike
Delivered: June 13, 2021
"While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future."
Ronald Reagan
Delivered: July 5, 2021
"Maybe you weren't born with a silver spoon in your mouth, but like every American, you carry a deed to 635 million acres of public lands. That's right. Even if you don't own a house or the latest computer on the market, you own Yosemite, Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, and many other natural treasures."
John Garamendi
Delivered: July 6, 2021
"I just find it absolutely bizarre that we are being lectured by the Americans about giving up our sovereignty and giving up control when the Americans won't even sign up to the international convention on the law of the seas, let alone the International Criminal Court."
Boris Johnson
Delivered: July 19, 2021
"The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through."
Alexis de Tocqueville
Delivered: August 20, 2021
"I was raised Irish Catholic, but I don't consider myself Irish Catholic: I consider myself me, an American."
John Cusack
Delivered: August 25, 2021
"We have the greatest hospitals, doctors, and medical technology in the world - we need to make them accessible to every American."
Barbara Boxer
Delivered: August 26, 2021
"The American way is to not need help, but to help."
Anne Lamott
Delivered: September 5, 2021
"To summarize, draft resistance can make use of the inegalitarian nature of American society as a technique for increasing the cost of American aggression, and it threatens values that are important to those in a decision-making position."
Noam Chomsky
Delivered: September 6, 2021
"My first album after 'American Idol' I did with Desmond - we paid for it together, and we literally were together working on it every day for a year and half, just writing. We wrote in New York, Nashville, L.A., Sweden - we wrote with some other amazing songwriters like Diane Warren, too."
Ace Young
Delivered: September 12, 2021
"By 'flat' I did not mean that the world is getting equal. I said that more people in more places can now compete, connect and collaborate with equal power and equal tools than ever before. That's why an Indian in Bangalore can take care of the office work of American doctors or read the X-rays of German hospitals."
Thomas Friedman
Delivered: October 7, 2021
"The behavioral scientist Karen Stenner has written very eloquently about people who have what she calls an authoritarian predisposition, a personality type that is bothered by complexity and is especially enraged by disagreement. Trump has made himself into the spokesperson for precisely these American authoritarians."
Anne Applebaum
Delivered: October 14, 2021
"I think if we go back and check our record, the Negro has proven beyond a doubt that we have been more than patient in seeking our rights as American citizens."
Jackie Robinson
Delivered: October 27, 2021
"As a steward of the U.S.economy and financial systems, the Treasury has helped lay the groundwork for the American economy to become a model of strength, flexibility, dynamism, resiliency. This is a system that generates growth, creates jobs and wealth, rewards initiative, and fosters innovation."
Henry Paulson
Delivered: December 12, 2021
"I am the American Dream."
John Schnatter
Delivered: December 27, 2021
"I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member."
Groucho Marx
Delivered: January 13, 2022
"You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life."
Steve Jobs
Delivered: January 14, 2022
"If it's flipping hamburgers at McDonald's, be the best hamburger flipper in the world. Whatever it is you do you have to master your craft."
Snoop Dogg
Delivered: January 30, 2022
"Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle."
Napoleon Hill
Delivered: January 31, 2022
"I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'"
Muhammad Ali
Delivered: February 12, 2022
"The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep."
Robert Frost
Delivered: March 25, 2022
"But life is long. And it is the long run that balances the short flare of interest and passion."
Sylvia Plath
Delivered: July 10, 2022
"The whole point of collaboration is that you give and take from each other, and that's how you create things that are totally new."
Virgil Abloh
Delivered: July 11, 2022
"The more you practice, the better you get, the more freedom you have to create."
Jocko Willink
Delivered: July 17, 2022
"You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great."
Zig Ziglar
Delivered: August 12, 2022
"Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality."
Edgar Allan Poe
Delivered: August 16, 2022
"Everything is negotiable. Whether or not the negotiation is easy is another thing."
Carrie Fisher
Delivered: November 21, 2022
"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his."
George S. Patton
Delivered: October 10, 2022
"When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad I'm better."
Mae West
Delivered: October 19, 2022
"Belief in oneself and knowing who you are, I mean, that's the foundation for everything great."
Jay-Z
Delivered: October 7, 2022
"You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind."
Timothy Leary
Delivered: November 25, 2022
"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes."
William James
Delivered: December 5, 2022
"Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it."
Lou Holtz
Delivered: December 8, 2022
"I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell."
William Tecumseh Sherman
Delivered: December 14, 2022
"All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work."
Calvin Coolidge
Delivered: December 21, 2022
"The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today."
Elbert Hubbard
Delivered: January 16, 2023
"No phone. No pool. No pets. No cigarettes. Ultimate freedom... No longer to be poisoned by civilization, he flees, and walks alone upon the land to become Lost in the Wild."
Christopher McCandless
Delivered: January 21, 2023
"Anything I do, I want to do it well."
J. Cole
Delivered: March 5, 2023
"A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself."
Jim Morrison
Delivered: April 27, 2023
"If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking."
George S. Patton
Delivered: April 28, 2023
"Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much."
John Wayne
Delivered: May 21, 2023
"Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future."
Elie Wiesel
Delivered: June 2, 2023
"Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well."
Jack London
Delivered: June 3, 2023
"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."
William James
Delivered: June 23, 2023
"Awareness without action is worthless."
Phil McGraw
Delivered: June 27, 2023
"So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservation, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality, nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit."
Christopher McCandless
Delivered: August 9, 2023
"If you're raised with a poverty mentality, nothing is going to change it. I do know some really stingy billionaires. I come from such a generation of hand-to-mouthers."
Robert Downey, Jr.
Delivered: August 10, 2023
"Without a song, each day would be a century."
Mahalia Jackson
Delivered: August 20, 2023
"Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes."
Walt Whitman
Delivered: September 15, 2023
"A warm smile is the universal language of kindness."
William Arthur Ward
Delivered: October 12, 2023
"A good lawyer is going to try to protect her client."
John Kennedy
Delivered: November 3, 2023
"I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet."
Jack London
Delivered: December 20, 2023
"I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn't, then why would you say I am."
Eminem
Delivered: December 21, 2023
"Make bold choices and make mistakes. It's all those things that add up to the person you become."
Angelina Jolie
Delivered: January 7, 2024
"What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things."
Margaret Mead
Delivered: February 1, 2024
"I don't care what it is in life: listen to your heart. If you do, no matter what, you win."
Paul Walker
Delivered: November 3, 2022
"Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing."
Elie Wiesel
Delivered: November 14, 2022
"The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare."
Bobby Knight
Delivered: January 12, 2023
"Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."
Anais Nin
Delivered: February 4, 2023
"Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife."
Groucho Marx
Delivered: February 17, 2023
"It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government."
Alexander Hamilton
Delivered: April 18, 2023
"If you eat a chicken wing or a chicken tender in some parts of the country, I probably supplied it."
Herschel Walker
Delivered: April 19, 2023
"Whatever I will become will be what God has chosen for me."
Elvis Presley
Delivered: May 8, 2023
"There's no such thing as a free lunch."
Milton Friedman
Delivered: May 26, 2023
"Space is the breath of art."
Frank Lloyd Wright
Delivered: June 5, 2023
"There's definitely a lot of responsibility to keep the good energy going."
Lil Durk
Delivered: June 10, 2023
"It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell."
William Tecumseh Sherman
Delivered: July 2, 2023
"No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave."
Calvin Coolidge
Delivered: July 9, 2023
"Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there - I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television."
Andy Warhol
Delivered: July 18, 2023
"Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and is conscious that he gains protection while he gives it."
Andrew Jackson
Delivered: July 22, 2023
"The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change."
Carl Rogers
Delivered: July 25, 2023
"Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Delivered: July 26, 2023
"True love doesn't come to you it has to be inside you."
Julia Roberts
Delivered: August 2, 2023
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."
Henry David Thoreau
Delivered: August 30, 2023
"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow."
Helen Keller
Delivered: September 1, 2023
"Laughter heals all wounds, and that's one thing that everybody shares. No matter what you're going through, it makes you forget about your problems. I think the world should keep laughing."
Kevin Hart
Delivered: November 6, 2022
"I'm not a real person. I'm a legend."
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Delivered: November 28, 2022
"A person's a person, no matter how small."
Dr. Seuss
Delivered: September 17, 2023
"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."
Walt Disney
Delivered: October 11, 2023
"There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment."
Hunter S. Thompson
Delivered: October 13, 2023
"Start every day off with a smile and get it over with."
W. C. Fields
Delivered: October 25, 2023
"Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers."
Isaac Asimov
Delivered: December 18, 2022
"If you're you, it doesn't matter if you're the most boring person in the world: someone will like you. You're not trying to be anyone else."
Lil Uzi Vert
Delivered: December 25, 2022
"Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless."
Thomas A. Edison
Delivered: November 18, 2023
"Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership."
Colin Powell
Delivered: November 29, 2023
"Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention."
Deepak Chopra
Delivered: December 4, 2023
"When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading."
Henny Youngman
Delivered: December 24, 2023
"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth."
Henry David Thoreau
Delivered: February 11, 2023
"Rather be dead than cool."
Kurt Cobain
Delivered: March 8, 2023
"I want to make paintings that look as if they were made by a child."
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Delivered: January 2, 2024
"Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time."
George W. Bush
Delivered: January 24, 2024
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Delivered: March 24, 2023
"In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one."
H. L. Mencken
Delivered: March 29, 2023
"Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change."
Stephen Covey
Delivered: April 7, 2023
"Our country was founded by geniuses, but it's being run by idiots."
John Kennedy
Delivered: April 17, 2023
"Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before."
Mae West
Delivered: May 7, 2023
"Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward."
Kurt Vonnegut
Delivered: May 15, 2023
"I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There's no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it."
Eminem
Delivered: June 4, 2023
"Turn on, Tune in, Drop out."
Timothy Leary
Delivered: June 13, 2023
"I'm just here for good times, man. I want people to have the best time ever. Especially if they're around me."
Travis Scott
Delivered: June 28, 2023
"A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits."
Richard M. Nixon
Delivered: June 30, 2023
"I stopped thinking; I just go out, and everything is in the moment. I just stop thinking and start moving - you just gotta be you."
Lil Uzi Vert
Delivered: July 13, 2023
"Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Delivered: August 1, 2023
"If you can't make it good, at least make it look good."
Bill Gates
Delivered: September 9, 2023
"I have an impact and people look up to me now. It's more than the money."
Lil Baby
Delivered: September 18, 2023
"Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit."
Napoleon Hill
Delivered: September 23, 2023
"I like to use the hard times in the past to motivate me today."
Dwayne Johnson
Delivered: September 29, 2023
"Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune."
Jim Rohn
Delivered: October 22, 2023
"I'd rather have money and be broken-hearted than be broke and broken-hearted."
Cardi B
Delivered: November 6, 2023
"If women ran the world we wouldn't have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days."
Robin Williams
Delivered: November 7, 2023
"Shoot for the moon and if you miss you will still be among the stars."
Les Brown
Delivered: November 9, 2023
"Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws."
Jim Morrison
Delivered: November 13, 2023
"We came from nothing really. One house. Ten people. Even days the lights was off. The worst days was not eating. Surviving off rice and toast."
Lil Durk
Delivered: December 27, 2023
"You can't buy swag."
Travis Scott
Delivered: January 13, 2024
"The greatest legacy one can pass on to one's children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one's life, but rather a legacy of character and faith."
Billy Graham
Delivered: October 12, 2022
"I fear no man, no beast or evil, brother."
Hulk Hogan
Delivered: October 17, 2022
"Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away."
Elvis Presley
Delivered: October 20, 2022
"I'm an old-fashioned guy... I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something."
Johnny Depp
Delivered: October 23, 2022
"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure."
Colin Powell
Delivered: October 25, 2022
"There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them."
Ray Bradbury
Delivered: November 4, 2022
"Work harder than anybody you've ever seen. That's what I believe."
Meek Mill
Delivered: December 17, 2022
"You just got with the flow because life is just all about how you feel."
Post Malone
Delivered: January 20, 2023
"The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven."
Robert Downey, Jr.
Delivered: January 22, 2023
"It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test."
Mahalia Jackson
Delivered: February 1, 2023
"When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life."
Jocko Willink
Delivered: February 2, 2023
"Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days."
Benjamin Franklin
Delivered: February 15, 2023
"What's another word for Thesaurus?"
Steven Wright
Delivered: February 19, 2023
"It is not length of life, but depth of life."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Delivered: February 24, 2023
"Be curious, not judgmental."
Walt Whitman
Delivered: February 27, 2023
"I'm always asked, 'What's the secret to success?' But there are no secrets. Be humble. Be hungry. And always be the hardest worker in the room."
Dwayne Johnson
Delivered: March 13, 2023
"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."
T. S. Eliot
Delivered: March 18, 2023
"I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying."
Michael Jordan
Delivered: March 28, 2023
"The soul that is within me no man can degrade."
Frederick Douglass
Delivered: April 2, 2023
"We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It's our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better."
Jeff Bezos
Delivered: April 3, 2023
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
Eleanor Roosevelt
Delivered: April 16, 2023
"You gotta catch the sauce. Move with me... I'm dripping sauce."
Future
Delivered: April 24, 2023
"I think each shoot has a different personality."
Kim Kardashian
Delivered: June 19, 2023
"My favorite animal is steak."
Fran Lebowitz
Delivered: June 20, 2023
"Here I am, I still go on, you know, like the tides."
Angela Lansbury
Delivered: July 14, 2023
"Why can't I just eat my waffle?"
Barack Obama
Delivered: September 4, 2023
"Folks, I can tell you I've known eight presidents, three of them intimately."
Joe Biden
Delivered: September 10, 2023
"To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace."
George Washington
Delivered: September 13, 2023
"In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock."
Thomas Jefferson
Delivered: September 14, 2023
"I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're goin', and hook up with them later."
Mitch Hedberg
Delivered: September 19, 2023
"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream."
Edgar Allan Poe
Delivered: September 20, 2023
"There is nothing so stable as change."
Bob Dylan
Delivered: October 8, 2023
"Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe."
Frederick Douglass
Delivered: October 19, 2023
"The image is one thing and the human being is another. It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way."
Elvis Presley
Delivered: November 24, 2023
"I feel as though, if you're able to control your dreams, you have more power and control over your mind, like you could reach more areas of your mind. Therefore, I feel like it creates the ability for you to achieve more things in reality."
Juice Wrld
Delivered: January 8, 2024
"The Muslims are, as a group, attacking people because under the Quran, there is the house of Islam, and outside of it, there's the house of war."
Alex Jones
Delivered: February 5, 2024
"I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her."
Rodney Dangerfield
Delivered: October 13, 2022
"I'm an emotional gangster. I cry once every month."
Cardi B
Delivered: October 2, 2022
"No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world."
Robin Williams
Delivered: October 3, 2022
"If your ego starts out, 'I am important, I am big, I am special,' you're in for some disappointments when you look around at what we've discovered about the universe. No, you're not big. No, you're not. You're small in time and in space. And you have this frail vessel called the human body that's limited on Earth."
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Delivered: October 29, 2022
"Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway."
John Wayne
Delivered: November 2, 2022
"Inflation is taxation without legislation."
Milton Friedman
Delivered: November 7, 2022
"To light a candle is to cast a shadow."
Ursula K. Le Guin
Delivered: November 13, 2022
"Trust is hard to come by. That's why my circle is small and tight. I'm kind of funny about making new friends."
Eminem
Delivered: November 16, 2022
"It is hard to separate the art from the artist."
Juice Wrld
Delivered: December 4, 2022
"You don't need a rope to pinch a stranger's butt."
Phil McGraw
Delivered: December 10, 2022
"The most effective way to do it, is to do it."
Amelia Earhart
Delivered: December 16, 2022
"We're going to merge with machines and become gods, but first, we've got to reduce the world population 90 percent."
Alex Jones
Delivered: January 1, 2023
"The only problem is time."
Seth MacFarlane
Delivered: January 4, 2023
"Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything."
B. F. Skinner
Delivered: January 9, 2023
"My moms always told me, 'How long you gonna play the victim?' I can say I'm mad and I hate everything, but nothing really changes until I change myself."
Kendrick Lamar
Delivered: January 15, 2023
"Change your thoughts and you change your world."
Norman Vincent Peale
Delivered: January 25, 2023
"God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him."
Jim Elliot
Delivered: January 31, 2023
"You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time."
Abraham Lincoln
Delivered: February 8, 2023
"When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads."
Ron Paul
Delivered: February 21, 2023
"Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before."
Edgar Allan Poe
Delivered: March 4, 2023
"When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you get a front row seat."
George Carlin
Delivered: March 23, 2023
"I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts."
John D. Rockefeller
Delivered: April 12, 2023
"Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough."
Oprah Winfrey
Delivered: May 16, 2023
"A doctor gave a man six months to live. The man couldn't pay his bill, so he gave him another six months."
Henny Youngman
Delivered: June 7, 2023
"My favorite fruit is grapes. Because with grapes, you always get another chance. 'Cause, you know, if you have a crappy apple or a peach, you're stuck with that crappy piece of fruit. But if you have a crappy grape, no problem - just move on to the next. 'Grapes: The Fruit of Hope.'"
Demetri Martin
Delivered: July 12, 2023
"Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have."
Margaret Mead
Delivered: July 16, 2023
"America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand."
Harry S Truman
Delivered: July 19, 2023
"Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful."
Norman Vincent Peale
Delivered: August 13, 2023
"The temptation to take the easy road is always there. It is as easy as staying in bed in the morning and sleeping in. But discipline is paramount to ultimate success and victory for any leader and any team."
Jocko Willink
Delivered: August 21, 2023
"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."
Groucho Marx
Delivered: September 5, 2023
"A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer."
Bruce Lee
Delivered: September 8, 2023
"My faith helps me understand that circumstances don't dictate my happiness, my inner peace."
Denzel Washington
Delivered: September 28, 2023
"I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love."
Marilyn Monroe
Delivered: October 1, 2023
"I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you're going to innovate."
Jeff Bezos
Delivered: October 20, 2023
"Listen with the intent to understand, not the intent to reply."
Stephen Covey
Delivered: October 24, 2023
"We don't need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful."
Taylor Swift
Delivered: October 28, 2023
"Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments."
Alexander Hamilton
Delivered: November 4, 2023
"I have self-doubt. I have insecurity. I have fear of failure. I have nights when I show up at the arena and I'm like, 'My back hurts, my feet hurt, my knees hurt. I don't have it. I just want to chill.' We all have self-doubt. You don't deny it, but you also don't capitulate to it. You embrace it."
Kobe Bryant
Delivered: November 8, 2023
"Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory."
George S. Patton
Delivered: November 14, 2023
"When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before."
Mae West
Delivered: November 23, 2023
"Dreams about the future are always filled with gadgets."
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Delivered: December 3, 2023
"Man who invented the hamburger was smart; man who invented the cheeseburger was a genius."
Matthew McConaughey
Delivered: December 11, 2023
"Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real."
Thomas Merton
Delivered: December 25, 2023
"I was street smart, but unfortunately the street was Rodeo Drive."
Carrie Fisher
Delivered: December 26, 2023
"Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact."
William James
Delivered: January 9, 2024
"War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over."
William Tecumseh Sherman
Delivered: January 18, 2024
"A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day."
Emily Dickinson
Delivered: January 26, 2024
"It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours."
Harry S Truman
Delivered: February 4, 2024
"There's a difference in thinking you are a champion and knowing that you are."
Matthew McConaughey
Delivered: November 5, 2022
"Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends."
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Delivered: November 10, 2022
"Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays."
Henny Youngman
Delivered: November 19, 2022
"The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them."
Thomas Merton
Delivered: November 20, 2022
"You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world's problems at once but don't ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own."
Michelle Obama
Delivered: November 26, 2022
"Maybe my fairy tale has a different ending than I dreamed it would. But that's OK."
Kim Kardashian
Delivered: December 1, 2022
"Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality."
Jonas Salk
Delivered: December 15, 2022
"Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done."
Peter Drucker
Delivered: December 19, 2022
"Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart."
Washington Irving
Delivered: January 30, 2023
"My story is going to be completely different than someone else's story in terms of hard work. What I might feel like is hard work, another person is dying to do."
Lil Baby
Delivered: March 2, 2023
"Sometimes a loss is the best thing that can happen. It teaches you what you should have done next time."
Snoop Dogg
Delivered: March 6, 2023
"It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning."
Henry Ford
Delivered: March 10, 2023
"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future."
John F. Kennedy
Delivered: March 14, 2023
"I done wrestled with an alligator, I done tussled with a whale; handcuffed lightning, thrown thunder in jail; only last week, I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalised a brick; I'm so mean I make medicine sick."
Muhammad Ali
Delivered: March 19, 2023
"Buy the ticket, take the ride."
Hunter S. Thompson
Delivered: March 27, 2023
"Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live."
Jim Rohn
Delivered: April 5, 2023
"Courage is grace under pressure."
Ernest Hemingway
Delivered: April 6, 2023
"In every day, there are 1,440 minutes. That means we have 1,440 daily opportunities to make a positive impact."
Les Brown
Delivered: April 23, 2023
"The best advice comes from people who don't give advice."
Matthew McConaughey
Delivered: May 24, 2023
"Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness."
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Delivered: May 29, 2023
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled."
Richard P. Feynman
Delivered: June 17, 2023
"I don't need the Prince Charming to have my own happy ending."
Katy Perry
Delivered: June 25, 2023
"Once you have a product that you are happy with, you the need to centralize things to continue growth."
Mark Zuckerberg
Delivered: July 1, 2023
"I do not look like the normal politician. I don't even look like a normal person."
John Fetterman
Delivered: July 17, 2023
"The key is not the will to win... everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important."
Bobby Knight
Delivered: July 30, 2023
"The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on."
Ulysses S. Grant
Delivered: August 6, 2023
"Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars."
Jack Kerouac
Delivered: August 7, 2023
"Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing."
Sylvia Plath
Delivered: August 14, 2023
"A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles."
Washington Irving
Delivered: August 18, 2023
"What a nice night for an evening."
Steven Wright
Delivered: September 7, 2023
"The sun is gone, but I have a light."
Kurt Cobain
Delivered: September 24, 2023
"Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation."
Michael Jordan
Delivered: October 14, 2023
"You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion."
Hillary Clinton
Delivered: November 22, 2023
"The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Delivered: December 6, 2023
"Sometimes the hurdles aren't really hurdles at all. They're welcome challenges, tests."
Paul Walker
Delivered: December 8, 2023
"No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other."
Frank Lloyd Wright
Delivered: December 22, 2023
"Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they're making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that's the difference."
Lou Holtz
Delivered: January 12, 2024
"In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes."
Andy Warhol
Delivered: February 3, 2024
"What you put into life is what you get out of it."
Clint Eastwood
Delivered: October 21, 2022
"I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde."
Dolly Parton
Delivered: November 11, 2022
"Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you."
Frank Lloyd Wright
Delivered: November 17, 2022
"Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another."
John Dewey
Delivered: December 6, 2022
"Bringing humor and bringing happiness and joy to an audience is a wonderful opportunity in life, believe me."
Angela Lansbury
Delivered: December 26, 2022
"Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power."
James Madison
Delivered: March 31, 2023
"You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it."
Robin Williams
Delivered: April 21, 2023
"I made the Yankee hat more famous than a Yankee can."
Jay-Z
Delivered: April 25, 2023
"Real patriotism is a willingness to challenge the government when it's wrong."
Ron Paul
Delivered: May 6, 2023
"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers."
Thomas Jefferson
Delivered: May 22, 2023
"Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life."
Angelina Jolie
Delivered: June 21, 2023
"Sandy Hook is a synthetic, completely fake, with actors - in my view, manufactured."
Alex Jones
Delivered: July 20, 2023
"Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are God. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are God."
Christopher Hitchens
Delivered: July 27, 2023
"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten."
B. F. Skinner
Delivered: July 28, 2023
"I am going to stop calling you a white man and I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man."
Morgan Freeman
Delivered: August 5, 2023
"That's the secret to happiness. Find something you can make money at that you really love to do."
Leslie Jordan
Delivered: August 29, 2023
"In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing."
Theodore Roosevelt
Delivered: August 31, 2023
"Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75."
Benjamin Franklin
Delivered: September 3, 2023
"I always feel like it's two key ingredients when it comes to following your dreams, making something happen that the average person deems difficult. If you truly believe it, that's step one. Step two, is, you know, the hard work that goes along with it."
J. Cole
Delivered: September 21, 2023
"Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future."
John F. Kennedy
Delivered: September 30, 2023
"It is a way to take people's wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all."
Thomas Sowell
Delivered: October 3, 2023
"I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious."
Vince Lombardi
Delivered: October 7, 2023
"I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out."
Rodney Dangerfield
Delivered: November 17, 2023
"Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time."
Lyndon B. Johnson
Delivered: November 26, 2023
"Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes."
Peter Drucker
Delivered: January 23, 2024
"Everything negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise."
Kobe Bryant
Delivered: October 4, 2022
"Chemistry can be a good and bad thing. Chemistry is good when you make love with it. Chemistry is bad when you make crack with it."
Adam Sandler
Delivered: September 27, 2022
"You got one life to live. So I'm living it the way I want to live it."
Future
Delivered: October 6, 2022
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
Thomas A. Edison
Delivered: October 14, 2022
"If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life."
Abraham Maslow
Delivered: October 15, 2022
"If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing."
W. Edwards Deming
Delivered: October 24, 2022
"The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years."
Deepak Chopra
Delivered: October 30, 2022
"Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful."
John Wooden
Delivered: November 30, 2022
"You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on."
George W. Bush
Delivered: December 20, 2022
"As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think."
Toni Morrison
Delivered: December 23, 2022
"I love women, but I feel like you can't trust some of them. Some of them are liars, you know? Like I was in the park and I met this girl, she was cute and she had a dog. And I went up to her, we started talking. She told me her dog's name. Then I said, 'Does he bite?' She said, 'No.' And I said, 'Oh yeah? Then how does he eat?' Liar."
Demetri Martin
Delivered: December 24, 2022
"Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely."
P. J. O'Rourke
Delivered: January 10, 2023
"Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion."
Jack Kerouac
Delivered: January 19, 2023
"I'm always trying to prove to my 17-year-old self that I can do creative things I thought weren't possible."
Virgil Abloh
Delivered: January 27, 2023
"God lets everything happen for a reason. It's all a learning process, and you have to go from one level to another."
Mike Tyson
Delivered: March 16, 2023
"I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday."
W. C. Fields
Delivered: April 8, 2023
"God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with."
Billy Graham
Delivered: April 30, 2023
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."
Thomas A. Edison
Delivered: May 2, 2023
"Plans are nothing; planning is everything."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Delivered: May 20, 2023
"You get to choose what monsters you want to slay. I'm sorry to say this again, but let's face it - the Force is with you."
Carrie Fisher
Delivered: June 9, 2023
"Mentors of mine were under a big pressure to minimize their femininity to make it. I'm not going to do that. That takes away my power. I'm not going to compromise who I am."
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Delivered: June 16, 2023
"I've always been different."
Juice Wrld
Delivered: June 22, 2023
"Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done."
Amelia Earhart
Delivered: July 4, 2023
"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe."
Abraham Lincoln
Delivered: August 27, 2023
"I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it."
Kanye West
Delivered: August 28, 2023
"He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life."
Muhammad Ali
Delivered: October 5, 2023
"We have the DNA of our Lord Jesus Christ."
Herschel Walker
Delivered: November 5, 2023
"Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in."
Robert Frost
Delivered: November 15, 2023
"I promised each and every Hulkamaniac when I went to that great battlefield in the sky I would bring the WWF title with me."
Hulk Hogan
Delivered: November 21, 2023
"As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too."
Johnny Depp
Delivered: November 27, 2023
"All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt."
Charles M. Schulz
Delivered: December 14, 2023
"Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand."
Neil Armstrong
Delivered: December 17, 2023
"The power of imagination makes us infinite."
John Muir
Delivered: December 23, 2023
"See, when you drive home today, you've got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you've got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what's happened in your past is not near as important as what's in your future."
Joel Osteen
Delivered: December 29, 2023
"If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you."
Calvin Coolidge
Delivered: January 25, 2024
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."
Eleanor Roosevelt
Delivered: September 28, 2022
"Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul."
John Muir
Delivered: November 18, 2022
"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different."
Kurt Vonnegut
Delivered: October 27, 2022
"I love mankind; it's people I can't stand."
Charles M. Schulz
Delivered: November 9, 2022
"It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong."
Richard P. Feynman
Delivered: November 29, 2022
"Truth is a tendency."
R. Buckminster Fuller
Delivered: December 11, 2022
"The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Delivered: January 13, 2023
"In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins."
Ulysses S. Grant
Delivered: January 18, 2023
"Having a superpower has nothing to do with the ability to fly or jump, or superhuman strength. The truest superpowers are the ones we all possess: willpower, integrity, and most importantly, courage."
Jason Reynolds
Delivered: January 28, 2023
"Great things in business are never done by one person. They're done by a team of people."
Steve Jobs
Delivered: February 18, 2023
"I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you're prepared for it."
Denzel Washington
Delivered: March 12, 2023
"Some girls are just born with glitter in their veins."
Paris Hilton
Delivered: April 1, 2023
"Well I have a microphone and you don't so you will listen to every damn word I have to say!"
Adam Sandler
Delivered: April 15, 2023
"The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people."
Ron Paul
Delivered: May 9, 2023
"It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best."
W. Edwards Deming
Delivered: May 12, 2023
"It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude."
H. P. Lovecraft
Delivered: July 21, 2023
"If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story."
Orson Welles
Delivered: July 24, 2023
"There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt."
Erma Bombeck
Delivered: August 17, 2023
"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."
Mark Twain
Delivered: August 25, 2023
"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals."
Zig Ziglar
Delivered: September 16, 2023
"Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop."
H. L. Mencken
Delivered: October 15, 2023
"I'm at peace with what I'm doing, I feel good with what I wake up doing and about my lifestyle."
Nipsey Hussle
Delivered: October 30, 2023
"Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened."
Billy Graham
Delivered: November 16, 2023
"In the US, there is basically one party - the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies. By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population."
Noam Chomsky
Delivered: November 20, 2023
"We learned about honesty and integrity - that the truth matters... that you don't take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules... and success doesn't count unless you earn it fair and square."
Michelle Obama
Delivered: December 31, 2023
"I love when people underestimate me and then become pleasantly surprised."
Kim Kardashian
Delivered: January 5, 2024
"I'm not the best person at putting words together. I can't give you the melody. But I might inspire somebody."
Meek Mill
Delivered: January 21, 2024
"For the record, I don't worship the devil. I just hate religion."
Tyler, The Creator
Delivered: October 26, 2022
"The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work."
Michael Jackson
Delivered: October 31, 2022
"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Delivered: November 1, 2022
"Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon."
Woody Allen
Delivered: November 23, 2022
"There's a lot of us out here that are birds, man. We all need to just fly."
Travis Scott
Delivered: December 9, 2022
"Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough."
Mark Zuckerberg
Delivered: December 13, 2022
"I have an unfortunate personality."
Orson Welles
Delivered: January 5, 2023
"Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance."
Morgan Freeman
Delivered: January 17, 2023
"If you expect nothing from anybody, you're never disappointed."
Sylvia Plath
Delivered: January 26, 2023
"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude."
Maya Angelou
Delivered: February 7, 2023
"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much."
Helen Keller
Delivered: February 13, 2023
"The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on."
Barack Obama
Delivered: February 16, 2023
"You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want."
Zig Ziglar
Delivered: February 28, 2023
"People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything."
Thomas Sowell
Delivered: March 17, 2023
"The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why."
Mark Twain
Delivered: April 4, 2023
"It gets late early out there."
Yogi Berra
Delivered: April 10, 2023
"Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up."
James Baldwin
Delivered: April 14, 2023
"Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier."
Colin Powell
Delivered: May 13, 2023
"The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation."
Michael Jackson
Delivered: May 19, 2023
"There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly."
R. Buckminster Fuller
Delivered: June 29, 2023
"America is the land of the second chance - and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life."
George W. Bush
Delivered: July 8, 2023
"Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done."
Robert A. Heinlein
Delivered: July 31, 2023
"Fashion and music are two great artistic forms that can be molded by the youth culture - our taste and our passion for evolving things in our limited time on earth allows us to look at things with fresh eyes."
Virgil Abloh
Delivered: August 15, 2023
"The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Delivered: September 11, 2023
"It ain't over till it's over."
Yogi Berra
Delivered: October 27, 2023
"No matter what, people grow. If you chose not to grow, you're staying in a small box with a small mindset. People who win go outside of that box. It's very simple when you look at it."
Kevin Hart
Delivered: December 10, 2023
"Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success."
Dale Carnegie
Delivered: December 13, 2023
"Storms make trees take deeper roots."
Dolly Parton
Delivered: December 16, 2023
"In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra."
Fran Lebowitz
Delivered: January 6, 2024
"I like to look cool and dress nice. Lil Uzi is a rock star. Just know that."
Lil Uzi Vert
Delivered: January 29, 2024
"When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance."
Joel Osteen
Delivered: November 24, 2022
"Oh, don't let's ask for the moon. We've already got the stars."
Bette Davis
Delivered: December 27, 2022
"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself."
Andy Warhol
Delivered: December 30, 2022
"But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean."
H. P. Lovecraft
Delivered: January 2, 2023
"I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do."
Robert A. Heinlein
Delivered: January 11, 2023
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
Theodore Roosevelt
Delivered: February 12, 2023
"If I don't run for president, we'll all be OK."
Joe Biden
Delivered: February 22, 2023
"Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment."
Will Rogers
Delivered: March 9, 2023
"Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team."
John C. Maxwell
Delivered: March 20, 2023
"No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky."
Bob Dylan
Delivered: March 22, 2023
"How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours."
Wayne Dyer
Delivered: March 30, 2023
"You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you'd experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it."
Taylor Swift
Delivered: April 11, 2023
"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people."
Carl Sagan
Delivered: April 26, 2023
"My psychiatrist told me I was crazy and I said I want a second opinion. He said okay, you're ugly too."
Rodney Dangerfield
Delivered: May 1, 2023
"We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves."
Lyndon B. Johnson
Delivered: May 10, 2023
"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all."
Dale Carnegie
Delivered: May 27, 2023
"The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next."
Ursula K. Le Guin
Delivered: June 1, 2023
"If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?"
John Wooden
Delivered: June 18, 2023
"Fortune befriends the bold."
Emily Dickinson
Delivered: July 10, 2023
"There are two kinds of pride, both good and bad. 'Good pride' represents our dignity and self-respect. 'Bad pride' is the deadly sin of superiority that reeks of conceit and arrogance."
John C. Maxwell
Delivered: October 6, 2023
"The greatest thing about America is this country is the place everyone wants to be."
Marjorie Taylor Greene
Delivered: October 21, 2023
"If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'"
John Wayne
Delivered: December 7, 2023
"The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy."
Milton Friedman
Delivered: December 12, 2023
"Healthcare as a human right, it means that every child, no matter where you are born, should have access to a college or trade-school education if they so choose it, and I think no person should be homeless if we can have public structures and public policy to allow for people to have homes and food and lead a dignified life in the United States."
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Delivered: January 1, 2024
"A lot of people do have tragic childhoods. But you know what? Get over it."
Phil McGraw
Delivered: January 14, 2024
"I said you could sue a ham sandwich. It's not going to change anything. Well, you can audit a ham sandwich, and it's not going to change anything."
John Fetterman
Delivered: December 29, 2022
"There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism."
Alexander Hamilton
Delivered: September 30, 2022
"For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love."
Carl Sagan
Delivered: October 8, 2022
"The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change."
Carl Rogers
Delivered: January 6, 2023
"I believe that two people are connected at the heart, and it doesn't matter what you do, or who you are or where you live; there are no boundaries or barriers if two people are destined to be together."
Julia Roberts
Delivered: January 14, 2023
"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting."
e. e. cummings
Delivered: February 3, 2023
"The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter."
Mark Twain
Delivered: February 6, 2023
"Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light."
George Washington
Delivered: February 25, 2023
"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go."
Dr. Seuss
Delivered: March 1, 2023
"Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation."
Noam Chomsky
Delivered: May 4, 2023
"People say I make strange choices, but they're not strange for me. My sickness is that I'm fascinated by human behavior, by what's underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people."
Johnny Depp
Delivered: May 11, 2023
"I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine."
Neil Armstrong
Delivered: May 31, 2023
"I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is."
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Delivered: June 15, 2023
"I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care."
Lou Holtz
Delivered: June 26, 2023
"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."
Isaac Asimov
Delivered: July 6, 2023
"I like to be quiet and play guitar and just chill."
Post Malone
Delivered: August 8, 2023
"It's hard to be what you can't see."
Jason Reynolds
Delivered: August 16, 2023
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."
Anais Nin
Delivered: August 23, 2023
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Delivered: September 12, 2023
"What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from."
T. S. Eliot
Delivered: October 4, 2023
"Give yourself a gift of five minutes of contemplation in awe of everything you see around you. Go outside and turn your attention to the many miracles around you. This five-minute-a-day regimen of appreciation and gratitude will help you to focus your life in awe."
Wayne Dyer
Delivered: October 16, 2023
"I don't really think, I just walk."
Paris Hilton
Delivered: October 18, 2023
"Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception."
Carl Sagan
Delivered: November 12, 2023
"Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have."
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Delivered: December 15, 2023
"I lead a very regimented life. I take excruciating care of myself: I take a lot of vitamins, get enough sleep, don't drink apart from a glass of wine occasionally."
Angela Lansbury
Delivered: January 30, 2024
"Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time."
H. P. Lovecraft
Delivered: February 6, 2024
"I'm sure there are close calls that we're not even aware of hundreds of times a year. You cross the street, and if you'd crossed the street two minutes later, you'd have been hit by a car, but you'd never know it. I'm sure that kind of stuff happens all the time."
Seth MacFarlane
Delivered: February 8, 2024
"If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat."
Herschel Walker
Delivered: October 1, 2022
"Don't let someone else's opinion of you become your reality."
Les Brown
Delivered: October 5, 2022
"Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time."
Lyndon B. Johnson
Delivered: October 22, 2022
"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get."
Dale Carnegie
Delivered: November 8, 2022
"That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."
Neil Armstrong
Delivered: November 12, 2022
"I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get."
Richard M. Nixon
Delivered: December 12, 2022
"Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else."
Margaret Mead
Delivered: December 28, 2022
"Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in."
Andrew Jackson
Delivered: January 3, 2023
"The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help."
Ronald Reagan
Delivered: February 14, 2023
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Delivered: February 23, 2023
"Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world."
Marilyn Monroe
Delivered: March 15, 2023
"The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are."
Joseph Campbell
Delivered: April 9, 2023
"Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it's happening."
Nipsey Hussle
Delivered: April 13, 2023
"I think I'm cool. That's all that matters."
Tyler, The Creator
Delivered: May 14, 2023
"Many people, including some conservatives, have been very impressed with how brainy the president and his advisers are. But that is not quite as reassuring as it might seem."
Thomas Sowell
Delivered: May 18, 2023
"If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one."
Dolly Parton
Delivered: May 30, 2023
"The mountains are calling and I must go."
John Muir
Delivered: June 6, 2023
"When ambition ends, happiness begins."
Thomas Merton
Delivered: June 8, 2023
"Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you're doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you."
Joel Osteen
Delivered: June 12, 2023
"Old age is no place for sissies."
Bette Davis
Delivered: July 15, 2023
"Believe it or not, I have about the same success rate as anyone else. Sometimes you hit, sometimes you miss."
Seth MacFarlane
Delivered: July 23, 2023
"Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power."
P. J. O'Rourke
Delivered: July 29, 2023
"There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves."
Will Rogers
Delivered: September 25, 2023
"May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house."
George Carlin
Delivered: October 9, 2023
"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut."
Ernest Hemingway
Delivered: October 23, 2023
"Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it."
James Baldwin
Delivered: October 31, 2023
"I know I want to always do the best I can."
Adam Sandler
Delivered: November 1, 2023
"A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water."
Eleanor Roosevelt
Delivered: November 2, 2023
"I am so grateful for all the love and support I've had from people around the world."
Katy Perry
Delivered: January 11, 2024
"We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims."
R. Buckminster Fuller
Delivered: January 15, 2024
"When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same."
Toni Morrison
Delivered: January 27, 2024
"If you've seen the 'Shawshank Redemption' and if you think Morgan Freeman's character should have died in prison, vote for the other person. And if you think, and you believe in redemption, and a second chance, you know, I'm your candidate."
John Fetterman
Delivered: February 2, 2024
"You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club."
Jack London
Delivered: November 15, 2022
"I'm just trying to show people that I ain't gotta ride off no movement. I can ride off myself."
Lil Durk
Delivered: November 22, 2022
"There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer."
Ansel Adams
Delivered: January 23, 2023
"There are probably a few library fines I haven't paid yet, but I'm a pretty clean-cut guy overall."
Al Yankovic
Delivered: January 24, 2023
"Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect."
Vince Lombardi
Delivered: March 21, 2023
"Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them."
William Arthur Ward
Delivered: March 26, 2023
"What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization."
Abraham Maslow
Delivered: May 3, 2023
"Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack."
George S. Patton
Delivered: May 25, 2023
"Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia."
Charles M. Schulz
Delivered: May 28, 2023
"I know all I really wanna do is get money and take care of my family."
Meek Mill
Delivered: July 5, 2023
"People have to go through trials and tribulations to get where they at. Do your thing - continue to rock it - because obviously, God wants you here."
Kendrick Lamar
Delivered: August 3, 2023
"Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter."
Ansel Adams
Delivered: August 11, 2023
"Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man."
Ronald Reagan
Delivered: September 2, 2023
"I want to put a ding in the universe."
Steve Jobs
Delivered: September 6, 2023
"When I'm not longer rapping, I want to open up an ice cream parlor and call myself Scoop Dogg."
Snoop Dogg
Delivered: September 22, 2023
"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young."
Henry Ford
Delivered: September 26, 2023
"Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing."
Warren Buffett
Delivered: September 27, 2023
"If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail."
Abraham Maslow
Delivered: November 19, 2023
"A bad system will beat a good person every time."
W. Edwards Deming
Delivered: November 28, 2023
"If the world was ending, I think I would grab some Cinnamon Toast Crunch, a bunch of water, and I'd probably just... I'd probably go crazy."
Tyler, The Creator
Delivered: November 30, 2023
"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be."
Kurt Vonnegut
Delivered: December 1, 2023
"Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher."
Oprah Winfrey
Delivered: December 2, 2023
"I'm a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and dignity."
Michael Jackson
Delivered: December 5, 2023
"There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest."
Elie Wiesel
Delivered: December 19, 2023
"I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens."
Woody Allen
Delivered: December 28, 2023
"I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams."
Jonas Salk
Delivered: January 19, 2024
"People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend."
Jim Morrison
Delivered: October 9, 2022
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
Robert Frost
Delivered: October 11, 2022
"Women are the largest untapped reservoir of talent in the world."
Hillary Clinton
Delivered: October 18, 2022
"Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down."
Oprah Winfrey
Delivered: October 28, 2022
"Change takes courage."
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Delivered: November 27, 2022
"You're only as good as your last haircut."
Fran Lebowitz
Delivered: December 2, 2022
"They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity."
Emily Dickinson
Delivered: December 22, 2022
"If you can't convince them, confuse them."
Harry S Truman
Delivered: December 31, 2022
"Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence."
Erma Bombeck
Delivered: January 29, 2023
"The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission."
John F. Kennedy
Delivered: February 5, 2023
"Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?"
Kanye West
Delivered: February 9, 2023
"Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom."
Thomas Jefferson
Delivered: February 26, 2023
"Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something."
Mitch Hedberg
Delivered: March 3, 2023
"It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently."
Warren Buffett
Delivered: March 11, 2023
"We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths."
Walt Disney
Delivered: March 25, 2023
"If a girl have beef with me, she gon' have beef with me forever."
Cardi B
Delivered: April 20, 2023
"I can't relate to lazy people. We don't speak the same language. I don't understand you. I don't want to understand you."
Kobe Bryant
Delivered: April 22, 2023
"Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference."
Robert Frost
Delivered: April 29, 2023
"Even with all our technology and the inventions that make modern life so much easier than it once was, it takes just one big natural disaster to wipe all that away and remind us that, here on Earth, we're still at the mercy of nature."
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Delivered: May 17, 2023
"I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it."
Ray Bradbury
Delivered: May 23, 2023
"Just try new things. Don't be afraid. Step out of your comfort zones and soar, all right?"
Michelle Obama
Delivered: June 14, 2023
"A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success."
Elbert Hubbard
Delivered: August 4, 2023
"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."
e. e. cummings
Delivered: August 22, 2023
"No one can feel more gratefully the charm of noble scenery, or the refreshment of escape into the unspoiled solitudes of nature, than the laborer at some close in-door employment."
Lucy Larcom
Delivered: August 24, 2023
"I have great respect for the past. If you don't know where you've come from, you don't know where you're going. I have respect for the past, but I'm a person of the moment. I'm here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I'm at, then I go forward to the next place."
Maya Angelou
Delivered: August 26, 2023
"Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Delivered: October 10, 2023
"The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse."
James Madison
Delivered: October 17, 2023
"If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success."
John D. Rockefeller
Delivered: October 29, 2023
"At the end of the day, I'm out of here - above anything."
Future
Delivered: November 10, 2023
"I have a very strict gun control policy: if there's a gun around, I want to be in control of it."
Clint Eastwood
Delivered: November 25, 2023
"Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new."
Ursula K. Le Guin
Delivered: December 18, 2023
"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are."
John Wooden
Delivered: January 4, 2024
"The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action."
John Dewey
Delivered: January 10, 2024
"Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain."
Richard M. Nixon
Delivered: January 16, 2024
"Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others."
Amelia Earhart
Delivered: January 20, 2024
"Well, I have great respect for Senator Hirono."
John Kennedy
Delivered: September 29, 2022
"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all."
Noam Chomsky
Delivered: October 16, 2022
"Where ever I am I always find myself looking out the window wishing I was somewhere else."
Angelina Jolie
Delivered: December 3, 2022
"I'm happy, I'm in a good place, I'm looking forward to my future."
Katy Perry
Delivered: December 7, 2022
"Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Delivered: January 7, 2023
"What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence."
Christopher Hitchens
Delivered: January 8, 2023
"Knowledge will give you power, but character respect."
Bruce Lee
Delivered: February 20, 2023
"Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success."
Napoleon Hill
Delivered: March 7, 2023
"I woke up and realized life is great and people are awesome and life is worth living."
Hulk Hogan
Delivered: May 5, 2023
"If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans."
Woody Allen
Delivered: June 11, 2023
"Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes."
John Dewey
Delivered: June 24, 2023
"There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality."
Jonas Salk
Delivered: July 3, 2023
"There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all."
Peter Drucker
Delivered: July 7, 2023
"All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was."
Toni Morrison
Delivered: July 11, 2023
"You fake something until you're good at it."
Al Yankovic
Delivered: August 12, 2023
"Wherever you are - be all there."
Jim Elliot
Delivered: August 19, 2023
"As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want."
Mike Tyson
Delivered: October 2, 2023
"A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself."
Joseph Campbell
Delivered: October 26, 2023
"Wherever I go, I bring the culture with me, so that they can understand that it's attainable. I didn't do it any other way than through hip-hop."
Jay-Z
Delivered: November 11, 2023
"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them."
Ray Bradbury
Delivered: December 9, 2023
"My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out."
Timothy Leary
Delivered: December 30, 2023
"I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there."
Richard P. Feynman
Delivered: January 3, 2024
"Facebook was not originally created to be a company. It was built to accomplish a social mission - to make the world more open and connected."
Mark Zuckerberg
Delivered: January 17, 2024
"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."
Isaac Asimov
Delivered: January 22, 2024
"I think that when you get dressed in the morning, sometimes you're really making a decision about your behavior for the day. Like if you put on flipflops, you're saying: 'Hope I don't get chased today.' 'Be nice to people in sneakers.'"
Demetri Martin
Delivered: January 28, 2024
"Sex is God's joke on human beings."
Bette Davis
Delivered: January 31, 2024
"If the Union is once severed, the line of separation will grow wider and wider, and the controversies which are now debated and settled in the halls of legislation will then be tried in fields of battle and determined by the sword."
Andrew Jackson
Delivered: February 7, 2024
"The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do."
B. F. Skinner
Delivered: February 14, 2024
"Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them."
Bruce Lee
Delivered: March 26, 2024
"Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them."
P. J. O'Rourke
Delivered: February 13, 2024
"Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light."
Helen Keller
Delivered: March 19, 2024
"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Delivered: March 29, 2024
"My friend asked me if I wanted a frozen banana. I said 'No, but I want a regular banana later, so... yeah.'"
Mitch Hedberg
Delivered: April 6, 2024
"I can admit and say that I have feelings."
Juice Wrld
Delivered: July 26, 2024
"Find out what your gift is and nurture it."
Katy Perry
Delivered: July 29, 2024
"Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don't choose what they want; they choose what they think is safe."
Phil McGraw
Delivered: July 31, 2024
"There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses."
Andrew Jackson
Delivered: August 25, 2024
"You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball."
Bobby Knight
Delivered: September 2, 2024
"My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation."
Al Yankovic
Delivered: February 28, 2024
"Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them."
Washington Irving
Delivered: March 5, 2024
"Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country."
Anais Nin
Delivered: March 10, 2024
"The ballot is stronger than the bullet."
Abraham Lincoln
Delivered: March 14, 2024
"Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time."
Steven Wright
Delivered: March 25, 2024
"I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past."
Thomas Jefferson
Delivered: April 1, 2024
"Check your ego at the door. The ego can be the great success inhibitor. It can kill opportunities, and it can kill success."
Dwayne Johnson
Delivered: April 16, 2024
"I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was."
Muhammad Ali
Delivered: April 22, 2024
"My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world."
Billy Graham
Delivered: June 3, 2024
"The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness."
Abraham Maslow
Delivered: June 6, 2024
"The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society."
Noam Chomsky
Delivered: June 7, 2024
"Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you."
Oprah Winfrey
Delivered: June 19, 2024
"Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for."
Ray Bradbury
Delivered: June 26, 2024
"You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - it's all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive."
Maya Angelou
Delivered: March 13, 2024
"Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care."
Theodore Roosevelt
Delivered: March 18, 2024
"I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it."
Groucho Marx
Delivered: March 23, 2024
"You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win."
Zig Ziglar
Delivered: April 3, 2024
"Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature."
Marilyn Monroe
Delivered: April 18, 2024
"It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there's nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized."
Wayne Dyer
Delivered: May 3, 2024
"We don't let criminals serve in our office as president."
Marjorie Taylor Greene
Delivered: May 8, 2024
"People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing."
Dale Carnegie
Delivered: June 30, 2024
"Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more."
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Delivered: July 2, 2024
"The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization."
Frank Lloyd Wright
Delivered: July 9, 2024
"Integrity is the essence of everything successful."
R. Buckminster Fuller
Delivered: August 2, 2024
"If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories."
Richard M. Nixon
Delivered: August 3, 2024
"Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others."
Orson Welles
Delivered: August 27, 2024
"But I can say that life is good to me. Has been and is good. So I think my task is to be good to it. So how do you be good to life? You live it."
Morgan Freeman
Delivered: September 8, 2024
"It is better to be alone than in bad company."
George Washington
Delivered: March 31, 2024
"I'm here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don't follow what you've been told you're supposed to do."
J. Cole
Delivered: April 8, 2024
"Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?"
T. S. Eliot
Delivered: April 21, 2024
"Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser."
Vince Lombardi
Delivered: April 24, 2024
"I went through every emotion with tryna pursue what I'm doing, you know what I mean? And I think what's gon' separate whoever's gon go for something, that you ain't gon' quit."
Nipsey Hussle
Delivered: May 17, 2024
"The Democratic position seems to be everything is going to be free. Free education. Free health care. Free housing. Free love. Free kittens, I don't know."
John Kennedy
Delivered: May 21, 2024
"It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived."
George S. Patton
Delivered: June 1, 2024
"Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands."
Clint Eastwood
Delivered: June 12, 2024
"Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use."
Charles M. Schulz
Delivered: July 1, 2024
"I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places."
Henny Youngman
Delivered: July 11, 2024
"I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens."
Woody Allen
Delivered: July 15, 2024
"The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting."
Fran Lebowitz
Delivered: July 24, 2024
"Everybody just has different steps in their life that they take to do what they should."
Travis Scott
Delivered: August 1, 2024
"Swimming is a confusing sport, because sometimes you do it for fun, and other times you do it to not die. And when I'm swimming, sometimes I'm not sure which one it is."
Demetri Martin
Delivered: August 15, 2024
"Land really is the best art."
Andy Warhol
Delivered: August 21, 2024
"Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was accomplished."
Ulysses S. Grant
Delivered: September 9, 2024
"The best way to guarantee a loss is to quit."
Morgan Freeman
Delivered: February 21, 2024
"In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?"
Carl Rogers
Delivered: February 10, 2024
"I honor the sanctity of all religions - I'm not here to put them down. But the only religion that I personally embrace is the religion of kindness."
Leslie Jordan
Delivered: March 16, 2024
"In order to find yourself, who you really are, you got to be with yourself; you got to hang out with yourself."
Post Malone
Delivered: February 24, 2024
"There are no second acts in American lives."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Delivered: February 11, 2024
"Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win."
Bobby Knight
Delivered: February 15, 2024
"Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference."
Barack Obama
Delivered: March 22, 2024
"I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best."
Walt Whitman
Delivered: April 2, 2024
"Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness."
Napoleon Hill
Delivered: April 10, 2024
"Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake."
W. C. Fields
Delivered: May 12, 2024
"Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded."
Yogi Berra
Delivered: May 14, 2024
"Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words."
Robert Frost
Delivered: June 2, 2024
"I'm not a follower. I'm a leader. And anyone who speaks their mind is always criticised."
Tyler, The Creator
Delivered: June 17, 2024
"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Delivered: June 23, 2024
"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference."
Elie Wiesel
Delivered: July 6, 2024
"I am not a black artist, I am an artist."
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Delivered: July 19, 2024
"Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination."
John Dewey
Delivered: July 28, 2024
"The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow."
Bill Gates
Delivered: March 27, 2024
"If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it."
William Arthur Ward
Delivered: April 29, 2024
"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me."
Hunter S. Thompson
Delivered: April 30, 2024
"I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature."
John D. Rockefeller
Delivered: May 16, 2024
"If you're afraid to fail, then you're probably going to fail."
Kobe Bryant
Delivered: May 26, 2024
"We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap."
Kurt Vonnegut
Delivered: June 18, 2024
"My philosophy is: If you can't have fun, there's no sense in doing it."
Paul Walker
Delivered: June 25, 2024
"You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try."
Dolly Parton
Delivered: July 3, 2024
"Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry."
Richard P. Feynman
Delivered: July 21, 2024
"War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want."
William Tecumseh Sherman
Delivered: August 5, 2024
"I'm from Connecticut, and we don't have any dialects. Well, I don't think we have any dialects, and yeah, it's very complex. That Rhode Island/Massachusetts New England region is arguably the hardest dialect to nail."
Seth MacFarlane
Delivered: August 26, 2024
"When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic."
Carl Rogers
Delivered: August 28, 2024
"If you love someone, you say it, right then, out loud. Otherwise, the moment just passes you by."
Julia Roberts
Delivered: September 5, 2024
"Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit."
e. e. cummings
Delivered: March 9, 2024
"When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat."
Ronald Reagan
Delivered: March 20, 2024
"The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?"
Edgar Allan Poe
Delivered: April 7, 2024
"Predicting rain doesn't count. Building arks does."
Warren Buffett
Delivered: April 14, 2024
"The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling."
Thomas Sowell
Delivered: April 20, 2024
"What's dangerous is not to evolve."
Jeff Bezos
Delivered: May 7, 2024
"I see myself as an intelligent, sensitive human, with the soul of a clown which forces me to blow it at the most important moments."
Jim Morrison
Delivered: May 31, 2024
"The only time I'm not Hulk Hogan is when I'm behind closed doors because as soon as I walk out the front door, and somebody says hello to me, I can't just say 'hello' like Terry. When they see me, they see the blond hair, the mustache, and the bald head, they instantly think Hulk Hogan."
Hulk Hogan
Delivered: June 8, 2024
"To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States."
George W. Bush
Delivered: August 11, 2024
"Mystery is something that appeals to most everybody."
Angela Lansbury
Delivered: August 17, 2024
"First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Delivered: August 29, 2024
"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys."
P. J. O'Rourke
Delivered: August 31, 2024
"Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time."
Elbert Hubbard
Delivered: September 7, 2024
"Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Delivered: February 17, 2024
"Happiness is only real when shared."
Christopher McCandless
Delivered: February 25, 2024
"I think that the power is the principle. The principle of moving forward, as though you have the confidence to move forward, eventually gives you confidence when you look back and see what you've done."
Robert Downey, Jr.
Delivered: February 26, 2024
"Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds."
Norman Vincent Peale
Delivered: February 29, 2024
"All I want kids to know is that I see them for who they are and not who everyone thinks they are."
Jason Reynolds
Delivered: March 3, 2024
"I feel beautiful without makeup on, but when I do put makeup on, it just gives me this extra pop."
Cardi B
Delivered: May 24, 2024
"When I was born I was so ugly the doctor slapped my mother."
Rodney Dangerfield
Delivered: June 4, 2024
"There's a difference between fair game and playing games."
Hillary Clinton
Delivered: June 9, 2024
"It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small."
Neil Armstrong
Delivered: July 4, 2024
"Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work."
Bette Davis
Delivered: August 18, 2024
"The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents."
H. P. Lovecraft
Delivered: August 24, 2024
"An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life."
Robert A. Heinlein
Delivered: September 3, 2024
"Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?"
Jack Kerouac
Delivered: February 23, 2024
"A drop of water, if it could write out its own history, would explain the universe to us."
Lucy Larcom
Delivered: March 11, 2024
"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."
Will Rogers
Delivered: April 12, 2024
"It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake."
Frederick Douglass
Delivered: May 6, 2024
"There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it."
Ernest Hemingway
Delivered: May 10, 2024
"The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities."
Stephen Covey
Delivered: May 11, 2024
"Our ability to handle life's challenges is a measure of our strength of character."
Les Brown
Delivered: May 27, 2024
"I hope I didn't bore you too much with my life story."
Elvis Presley
Delivered: June 11, 2024
"You aren't learning anything when you're talking."
Lyndon B. Johnson
Delivered: June 13, 2024
"My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent."
Ulysses S. Grant
Delivered: February 22, 2024
"Well done is better than well said."
Benjamin Franklin
Delivered: March 21, 2024
"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently."
Henry Ford
Delivered: April 13, 2024
"All I can do is be me, whoever that is."
Bob Dylan
Delivered: April 25, 2024
"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain."
James Baldwin
Delivered: May 18, 2024
"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere."
Carl Sagan
Delivered: May 30, 2024
"I don't pretend to be captain weird. I just do what I do."
Johnny Depp
Delivered: June 14, 2024
"Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony."
Thomas Merton
Delivered: July 12, 2024
"If you don't like what you're doing, you can always pick up your needle and move to another groove."
Timothy Leary
Delivered: July 17, 2024
"If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes."
John Wooden
Delivered: July 22, 2024
"A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa."
Mark Zuckerberg
Delivered: August 4, 2024
"Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next."
Jonas Salk
Delivered: August 6, 2024
"Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another."
Toni Morrison
Delivered: August 14, 2024
"To the dumb question, 'Why me?' the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, 'Why not?'"
Christopher Hitchens
Delivered: August 30, 2024
"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea."
Robert A. Heinlein
Delivered: February 16, 2024
"It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment."
Ansel Adams
Delivered: February 27, 2024
"Don't think in the morning. That's a big mistake that people make. They wake up in the morning and they start thinking. Don't think. Just execute the plan. The plan is the alarm clock goes off, you get up, you go work out. Get some."
Jocko Willink
Delivered: March 8, 2024
"People always tell you, 'Be humble. Be humble.' When was the last time someone told you to be amazing? Be great! Be great! Be awesome! Be awesome!"
Kanye West
Delivered: March 15, 2024
"Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?"
George Carlin
Delivered: April 26, 2024
"Well, we're living in a material world, and I'm a material girl... or boy."
Adam Sandler
Delivered: May 19, 2024
"Everything we do, every thought we've ever had, is produced by the human brain. But exactly how it operates remains one of the biggest unsolved mysteries, and it seems the more we probe its secrets, the more surprises we find."
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Delivered: June 20, 2024
"Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program."
Milton Friedman
Delivered: June 29, 2024
"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all."
Emily Dickinson
Delivered: August 13, 2024
"I learned, when I look in the mirror and tell my story, that I should be myself and not peep whatever everybody is doing."
Kendrick Lamar
Delivered: September 6, 2024
"Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died."
Erma Bombeck
Delivered: March 4, 2024
"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go."
Dr. Seuss
Delivered: April 4, 2024
"I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter."
Walt Disney
Delivered: April 28, 2024
"There is no 'i' in team but there is in win."
Michael Jordan
Delivered: May 1, 2024
"Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats."
H. L. Mencken
Delivered: May 2, 2024
"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy."
James Madison
Delivered: May 4, 2024
"Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present."
Jim Rohn
Delivered: May 9, 2024
"I'm hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter. That's what this world is about. You look at someone like Gandhi, and he glowed. Martin Luther King glowed. Muhammad Ali glows. I think that's from being bright all the time, and trying to be brighter."
Jay-Z
Delivered: May 29, 2024
"There is no substitute for hard work."
Thomas A. Edison
Delivered: June 5, 2024
"There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle."
Deepak Chopra
Delivered: June 21, 2024
"Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday."
John Wayne
Delivered: June 24, 2024
"Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean."
John Muir
Delivered: July 10, 2024
"Two of the saddest words in the English language are, 'What party?' And L.A. is the 'What party?' capital of the world."
Carrie Fisher
Delivered: July 13, 2024
"People say money ain't nothing; money is basically everything."
Meek Mill
Delivered: August 8, 2024
"The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten."
Calvin Coolidge
Delivered: August 12, 2024
"You are not going to silence me. You are not going to silence America. You are literally like a little gangster thug. Rubio just threatened to silence me."
Alex Jones
Delivered: August 23, 2024
"Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself."
Mark Twain
Delivered: March 12, 2024
"A gentleman is never rude except on purpose - I can honestly be nasty sober, believe you me."
Christopher Hitchens
Delivered: February 12, 2024
"Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck."
Orson Welles
Delivered: February 9, 2024
"You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness."
Julia Roberts
Delivered: February 18, 2024
"If you stop at general math, you're only going to make general math money."
Snoop Dogg
Delivered: April 9, 2024
"Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are."
Kurt Cobain
Delivered: April 11, 2024
"I'd be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frightened by procrastination and laziness."
Denzel Washington
Delivered: April 15, 2024
"Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls."
Joseph Campbell
Delivered: May 13, 2024
"Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect."
Eleanor Roosevelt
Delivered: May 20, 2024
"Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose."
Robin Williams
Delivered: May 25, 2024
"It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory."
W. Edwards Deming
Delivered: June 15, 2024
"I don't want to just revolve. I want to evolve. As a man, as a human, as a father, as a lover."
Matthew McConaughey
Delivered: June 27, 2024
"There are no right answers to wrong questions."
Ursula K. Le Guin
Delivered: July 5, 2024
"I wake up every day, and I'm a Puerto Rican girl from the Bronx. Every single day."
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Delivered: July 20, 2024
"I didn't love school."
Kim Kardashian
Delivered: July 23, 2024
"I need more sex, OK? Before I die I wanna taste everyone in the world."
Angelina Jolie
Delivered: July 25, 2024
"The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another."
William James
Delivered: July 27, 2024
"Lord, make my way prosperous, not that I achieve high station, but that my life may be an exhibit to the value of knowing God."
Jim Elliot
Delivered: March 6, 2024
"The way I see it, you should live everyday like its your birthday."
Paris Hilton
Delivered: May 5, 2024
"All these older kids here, and I'm the only one from a town that's so small, if everyone breathed at the same time, you'd run out of oxygen. Man, there is nothing there."
Herschel Walker
Delivered: May 23, 2024
"If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with."
Michael Jackson
Delivered: June 22, 2024
"Being humble matters."
Kevin Hart
Delivered: June 28, 2024
"Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated."
Lou Holtz
Delivered: July 30, 2024
"The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said."
Peter Drucker
Delivered: August 10, 2024
"I got different moods. Like, if I'm in a good mood, I listen to 'Up' by Thug. If I'm not in a good mood, I'll listen to 'King TROUP' - that's a real emotional one."
Lil Uzi Vert
Delivered: August 16, 2024
"I learned the value of hard work by working hard."
Margaret Mead
Delivered: August 19, 2024
"I don't want to be something that just comes and goes."
Kendrick Lamar
Delivered: February 19, 2024
"And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt."
Sylvia Plath
Delivered: March 1, 2024
"Art is made in hindsight."
Virgil Abloh
Delivered: March 2, 2024
"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Delivered: March 30, 2024
"Things do not happen. Things are made to happen."
John F. Kennedy
Delivered: April 17, 2024
"Greatness is not guarding yourself from the people; greatness is being accepted by the people."
Mike Tyson
Delivered: April 19, 2024
"A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them."
John C. Maxwell
Delivered: April 23, 2024
"Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Delivered: April 27, 2024
"I think the perfection of love is that it's not perfect."
Taylor Swift
Delivered: May 15, 2024
"I know I haven't always done things the right way. I'm just trying to reflect on how to make myself better, how to become a better man, a better father, a better person, a better artist."
Future
Delivered: May 28, 2024
"Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep you."
Mae West
Delivered: June 10, 2024
"Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence."
Colin Powell
Delivered: June 16, 2024
"There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive."
Jack London
Delivered: July 7, 2024
"I'm my own boss, you know?"
Lil Durk
Delivered: July 14, 2024
"Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life."
Joel Osteen
Delivered: July 16, 2024
"Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace."
Amelia Earhart
Delivered: August 7, 2024
"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."
Isaac Asimov
Delivered: August 9, 2024
"A place deserves somewhere to eat lunch."
John Fetterman
Delivered: August 20, 2024
"The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount."
B. F. Skinner
Delivered: September 1, 2024
"Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Delivered: September 4, 2024
"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man."
Elbert Hubbard
Delivered: February 20, 2024
"You're blessed if you have the strength to work."
Mahalia Jackson
Delivered: March 7, 2024
"Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify."
Henry David Thoreau
Delivered: March 17, 2024
"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition."
Steve Jobs
Delivered: March 24, 2024
"If you need more than 10 rounds to hunt, and some argue they hunt with that many rounds, you shouldn't be hunting. If you can't get the deer in 3 shots, you shouldn't be hunting. You are an embarrassment."
Joe Biden
Delivered: March 28, 2024
"I've been through all the bad parts of the streets."
Lil Baby
Delivered: April 5, 2024
"The nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master and deserves one."
Alexander Hamilton
Delivered: May 22, 2024
"I'm stupid, I'm ugly, I'm dumb, I smell. Did I mention I'm stupid?"
Eminem
Delivered: July 8, 2024
"You've got to vote, vote, vote, vote. That's it; that's the way we move forward. That's how we make progress for ourselves and for our country."
Michelle Obama
Delivered: July 18, 2024
"You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog."
Harry S Truman
Delivered: August 22, 2024
"When you’re born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you’re born in America, you get a front row seat."
George Carlin
Delivered: February 10, 2023