2021 APRIL

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"The name 'reservation' has a negative connotation among Native Americans - an intern camp of sorts."

John Russell

Delivered: April 5, 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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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 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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"American taxpayers have been generous to Louisiana in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita."

John Kennedy

Delivered: April 28, 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