"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father."
Gloria Steinem
Delivered: January 17, 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
"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 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
"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
"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