"We were American citizens. We were incarcerated by our American government in American internment camps here in the United States. The term 'Japanese internment camp' is both grammatically and factually incorrect."
George Takei
Delivered: July 2, 2021
"The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek."
Henry Adams
Delivered: July 10, 2021
"A new breed of Republicans has taken over the GOP. It is a new breed which is seeking to sell to Americans a doctrine which is as old as mankind - the doctrine of racial division, the doctrine of racial prejudice, the doctrine of white supremacy."
Jackie Robinson
Delivered: July 17, 2021
"Most previous immigrants came to the United States to become Americans, with no intention of returning home. They relinquished their ties with their homeland. English was their key to prosperity, and they worked hard to master it."
John Shadegg
Delivered: July 21, 2021
"The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom."
George W. Bush
Delivered: July 24, 2021
"The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry."
Henry Kissinger
Delivered: July 7, 2021
"I think Americans are very patriotic."
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Delivered: July 22, 2021
"There are millions of Americans outside Washington who are tired of stale political arguments and are moving this country forward. They believe, and I believe, that here in America, our success should depend not on accident of birth, but the strength of our work ethic and the scope of our dreams."
Barack Obama
Delivered: July 23, 2021
"How wonderful it is to be an American. We have known the best of times and the worst of times."
Maya Angelou
Delivered: July 11, 2021
"The truth is that the vast majority of Americans are good, fair, and just, and they want their country to reflect those ideals."
Kamala Harris
Delivered: July 31, 2021
"What troubles me most about my lovely country is that its children are seldom taught that American freedom will vanish, if, when they grow up, and in the exercise of their duties as citizens, they insist that our courts and policemen and prisons be guided by divine or natural law."
Kurt Vonnegut
Delivered: August 1, 2021
"I can think of nothing more American than to peacefully stand up or take a knee for your rights - anytime, anywhere, anyplace."
Beto O'Rourke
Delivered: July 9, 2021
"Gracious dying is a huge, macabre and expensive joke on the American public."
Jessica Mitford
Delivered: July 4, 2021
"If the leading Negro classes cannot assume and bear the uplift of their own proletariat, they are doomed for all time. It is not a case of ethics; it is a plain case of necessity. The method by which this may be done is, first, for the American Negro to achieve a new economic solidarity."
W. E. B. Du Bois
Delivered: July 28, 2021
"Joe Biden's nomination of gun-grabber David Chipman, who wants to ban, confiscate, and destroy the most popular self-defense and hunting rifle in America owned by millions of American patriots, is a clear indication that the ATF's war on gun owners is just beginning and is about to crank up."
Marjorie Taylor Greene
Delivered: July 29, 2021
"There is only one thing that gives me hope as a Republican, and that is the Democrats. It's going to be hard to do a worse job running American than the Republicans have, but if anybody can do it, it's the Democrats."
P. J. O'Rourke
Delivered: July 30, 2021
"In spite of our agonizing history, Native American people find much to celebrate. The songs, the dances, the culture and traditions surrounding planting and harvests, the prayers that are sent upward for healing and peace, and the welcoming of children into our families, are all reasons for us to keep moving forward with optimism."
Deb Haaland
Delivered: July 15, 2021
"We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people."
John F. Kennedy
Delivered: July 3, 2021
"If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience."
Tallulah Bankhead
Delivered: July 13, 2021
"Americans expect us to go to Washington for the right reason, and not just to mingle with the right people."
Sarah Palin
Delivered: July 20, 2021
"There's very little dislike of Americans in the world, shown by repeated polls, and the dissatisfaction - that is, the hatred and the anger - they come from acceptance of American values, not a rejection of them, and recognition that they're rejected by the U.S. government and by U.S. elites, which does lead to hatred and anger."
Noam Chomsky
Delivered: July 27, 2021
"I am proud to be an American Citizen."
Robert Purvis
Delivered: July 8, 2021
"Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We'll break out of it. It takes time."
Warren Buffett
Delivered: July 25, 2021
"Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead."
Sinclair Lewis
Delivered: July 12, 2021
"Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American hero."
Morgan Freeman
Delivered: July 14, 2021
"If we don't empower families to be able to have a quality education, then their children - for the first time in American history, truly the first time - will not have the same economic opportunities."
Jeb Bush
Delivered: July 16, 2021
"Except for naval and air exercises, our military should be stationed on American soil, where service men and women can lead normal lives in close proximity to family and friends."
Camille Paglia
Delivered: July 18, 2021
"I let the American people down."
Richard M. Nixon
Delivered: July 26, 2021
"While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future."
Ronald Reagan
Delivered: July 5, 2021
"Maybe you weren't born with a silver spoon in your mouth, but like every American, you carry a deed to 635 million acres of public lands. That's right. Even if you don't own a house or the latest computer on the market, you own Yosemite, Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, and many other natural treasures."
John Garamendi
Delivered: July 6, 2021
"I just find it absolutely bizarre that we are being lectured by the Americans about giving up our sovereignty and giving up control when the Americans won't even sign up to the international convention on the law of the seas, let alone the International Criminal Court."
Boris Johnson
Delivered: July 19, 2021