"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
"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
"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
"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 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
"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
"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
"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
"Export anything to a friendly country except American management."
W. Edwards Deming
Delivered: June 5, 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
"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
"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 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
"Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it costs them."
John Updike
Delivered: June 13, 2021