"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
"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
"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 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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"We're not Democrats first. We're not Republicans first. We're Americans first. We're patriots first."
Mitch McConnell
Delivered: March 19, 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
"The greatest public health threat for many American women is the men they live with."
Anna Quindlen
Delivered: March 30, 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
"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
"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