"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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