"We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world."
Dan Quayle
Delivered: August 12, 2021
"For me, being an 'American Latina' means identifying with and being influenced by both my American upbringing and my Latin heritage, and I have so much appreciation for how those two cultures have created who I am."
Camila Mendes
Delivered: August 13, 2021
"On American sets, you work 12-, 14-, 16-hour days sometimes. All that volume over a short course of time can actually be less conducive to telling a story accurately."
Timothee Chalamet
Delivered: August 14, 2021
"For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents."
Barack Obama
Delivered: August 21, 2021
"The opportunities of America opened out to me the public schools. They carried me to the professional training of an American university. I began by working with my own hands for my daily bread."
Herbert Hoover
Delivered: August 22, 2021
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public."
Theodore Roosevelt
Delivered: August 23, 2021
"When President Teddy Roosevelt posed for the cameras astride a massive steam shovel during construction of the Panama Canal in 1906, it was more than a simple photo op. Though the scene was clearly staged, it symbolized a crucial moment in American history."
Alan Huffman
Delivered: August 30, 2021
"As young West Point cadets, our motto was 'duty, honor, country.' But it was in the field, from the rice paddies of Southeast Asia to the sands of the Middle East, that I learned that motto's fullest meaning. There I saw gallant young Americans of every race, creed and background fight, and sometimes die, for 'duty, honor, and their country.'"
Norman Schwarzkopf
Delivered: August 6, 2021
"The accent got lost somewhere along the way. I'm a little embarrassed about it. When I arrived in LA I assumed I'd be able to put on the American accent. It proved difficult so I had six months working with a dialect coach and it's become a habit."
Martin Henderson
Delivered: August 11, 2021
"The devastating punch we took on September 11th still reverberates throughout American society."
Joe Biden
Delivered: August 8, 2021
"A cashless society promises a world of limitation, control, and surveillance - all of which the poorest Americans already have in abundance, of course. For the most vulnerable, the cashless society offers nothing substantively new; it only extends the reach of the existing paternal bureaucratic state."
Sarah Jeong
Delivered: August 4, 2021
"Envy is the central fact of American life."
Gore Vidal
Delivered: August 24, 2021
"Without going outside his race, and even among the better classes with their 'white' culture and conscious American manners, but still Negro enough to be different, there is sufficient matter to furnish a black artist with a lifetime of creative work."
Langston Hughes
Delivered: August 15, 2021
"As both a career intelligence officer and as an American citizen, I am a strong believer in the importance of oversight. Simply put, experience has taught us that CIA cannot be effective without the people's trust, and we cannot hope to earn that trust without the accountability that comes with Congressional oversight."
Gina Haspel
Delivered: August 16, 2021
"Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap - let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice."
Abraham Lincoln
Delivered: August 3, 2021
"Putin's Russia is our adversary and moral opposite. It is committed to the destruction of the post-war, rule-based world order built on American leadership and the primacy of our political and economic values."
John McCain
Delivered: August 5, 2021
"By 2007, 85% of Americans cited climate change as an important issue, compared with just 33% in prior years. The phrase we invented, 'An Inconvenient Truth,' became a part of the lexicon."
Jeffrey Skoll
Delivered: August 28, 2021
"To the American people I say, awaken to what is happening. It is the duty of each citizen to be vigilant, to protect liberty, to speak out, left and right and disagree lest be trampled underfoot by misguided zealotry and extreme partisanship."
Robert Byrd
Delivered: August 29, 2021
"The real truth is that the Obama administration is professional at bullying, as we have witnessed with ACORN at work during the presidential campaign. It seems to me they are sending down their bullies to create fist fights among average American citizens who don't want a government-run health care plan forced upon them."
Jon Voight
Delivered: August 2, 2021
"I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I've done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?"
Douglas MacArthur
Delivered: August 17, 2021
"It behooves every American to encourage home manufactures, that our oppressors may feel through their pockets the effects of their blind folly."
Samuel Adams
Delivered: August 18, 2021
"I grew up in a storytelling culture, a tribal culture, but also in an American storytelling culture."
Sherman Alexie
Delivered: August 31, 2021
"I like American women. They do things sexually Russian girls never dream of doing - like showering."
Yakov Smirnoff
Delivered: August 10, 2021
"To me, race is the single most divisive factor affecting American society. It's an issue that we are afraid of, that we shy away from, and quite frankly, it amuses me that we are so sensitive to the issue."
Ron Stallworth
Delivered: August 19, 2021
"Nearly half of the American population is eagerly anticipating the end of the world. This dewy-eyed nihilism provides absolutely no incentive to build a sustainable civilization. Many of these people are lunatics, but they are not the lunatic fringe."
Sam Harris
Delivered: August 9, 2021
"I think the American people, with some justification, think that most politicians live in la-la land."
John Kennedy
Delivered: August 27, 2021
"I produced the Buckcherry album and I just finished a band called American Pearl on Wind-Up Records. That's Creed's label. They're pretty rocking. Now I'm looking for another band to produce."
Steve Jones
Delivered: September 1, 2021
"Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Delivered: August 7, 2021
"The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through."
Alexis de Tocqueville
Delivered: August 20, 2021
"I was raised Irish Catholic, but I don't consider myself Irish Catholic: I consider myself me, an American."
John Cusack
Delivered: August 25, 2021
"We have the greatest hospitals, doctors, and medical technology in the world - we need to make them accessible to every American."
Barbara Boxer
Delivered: August 26, 2021