"Americans are not intrinsically imperial, but we ended up dominant by default: Europe disappeared after the Second World War, the Soviet Union disappeared in 1991, so here we are."
Charles Krauthammer
Delivered: October 8, 2021
"My great-grandfather fought with the Colonial Army in New England in the American Revolution."
W. E. B. Du Bois
Delivered: October 22, 2021
"Hating Wall Street is an American tradition that dates back even to the days when Thomas Jefferson cursed that money lover Alexander Hamilton. And for centuries, the complaints about it have largely stayed the same: 'It does nothing! It creates chaos! It's a parasite that sucks hardworking Americans dry!'"
Adam Davidson
Delivered: October 17, 2021
"Americans, they have an incredible operatic tradition: the Metropolitan Opera House is - if not the most prestigious - one of the most prestigious opera houses in the world for over 100 years."
Jose Carreras
Delivered: October 21, 2021
"In 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition. So nobody really thought much about quality. Why should they? The world bought everything America produced. It was a prescription for disaster."
W. Edwards Deming
Delivered: October 10, 2021
"The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle."
Alexis de Tocqueville
Delivered: October 13, 2021
"As time goes on we get closer to that American Dream of there being a pie cut up and shared. Usually greed and selfishness prevent that and there is always one bad apple in every barrel."
Rick Danko
Delivered: November 1, 2021
"The legal principle placing the burden of proof on accusers rather than the accused can be traced back to Second and Third Century Roman jurist, Julius Paulus Prudentissimus. Yet, this ancient concept, which forms the legal and moral cornerstone of the American judicial system, is quickly being undermined in the name of 'national security.'"
Bob Barr
Delivered: October 16, 2021
"Steve Morse is a very good guitar player, but he's American, and he's using humbucker pickups. If you ask me, those two are not good."
Yngwie Malmsteen
Delivered: October 20, 2021
"If you go back in American history, oysters were the food of poor people. New York was filled with oyster saloons in the 1800s."
Ruth Reichl
Delivered: October 26, 2021
"The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime."
Chuck Palahniuk
Delivered: October 11, 2021
"The dangerous American fascist is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way."
Henry A. Wallace
Delivered: October 15, 2021
"American sports are quite masculine. And football - although it's still played by men all over the world - football compared to American football is quite feminine in its artistry. And there's no padding. It's America's loss, though."
Noel Gallagher
Delivered: October 23, 2021
"We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans."
Max Beerbohm
Delivered: October 6, 2021
"The Left only worries about people who don't want to work; they could care less. They cater more to people who are here illegally, and they care more about the feelings of countries that would love to see us wiped off the face of the Earth than they do hard-working Americans. It's ridiculous."
Donald Trump, Jr.
Delivered: October 9, 2021
"One of our books has been made into a musical, 'The Great American Mousical,' which I directed at the Goodspeed Opera House in Connecticut. And another, 'Simeon's Gift,' has been adapted for a symphony orchestra and five performers. I'm also a very proud member of the board of the Los Angeles Philharmonic."
Julie Andrews
Delivered: October 30, 2021
"America is a nation founded by immigrants and built on the ideal that anyone can be an American if he or she believes in the principles and values of the Constitution."
Ted Lieu
Delivered: October 2, 2021
"And that means that no matter how we reform health care, we will keep this promise to the American people: If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor, period. If you like your health care plan, you'll be able to keep your health care plan, period. No one will take it away, no matter what."
Barack Obama
Delivered: October 5, 2021
"When I cook for my family on Christmas, I make feijoada, a South American dish of roasted and smoked meats like ham, pork, beef, lamb, and bacon - all served with black beans and rice. It's festive but different."
Maya Angelou
Delivered: October 12, 2021
"Because the Internet is so new, we still don't really understand what it is. We mistake it for a type of publishing or broadcasting, because that's what we're used to. So people complain that there's a lot of rubbish online, or that it's dominated by Americans, or that you can't necessarily trust what you read on the Web."
Douglas Adams
Delivered: October 18, 2021
"I was a supporting character in other people's lives, which seemed right and familiar to me. I was also an outsider: English in the U.S., American in England, dogged yet comforted by that familiar feeling of alien-ness, which occupied that space where my sense of self should have been."
Allegra Huston
Delivered: October 3, 2021
"America has absorbed people from around the world, and there is an Indian in every part of the world. This characterizes both the societies. Indians and Americans have co-existed in their natural temperament."
Narendra Modi
Delivered: October 4, 2021
"Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens. So we don't like the notion that anyone might get a free pass to American citizenship."
Barack Obama
Delivered: October 28, 2021
"Harry Truman's decision to fire Douglas MacArthur at the height of the Korean War in April 1951 shocked the American political system and astonished the world. Much of the world didn't realize the president had the power to fire a five-star general; much of America didn't realize Truman had the nerve."
H. W. Brands
Delivered: October 19, 2021
"And I believe that if we can care about whether or not our neighbor has a good job or access to affordable health care for their children, and we move to implement the policies that can improve these situations, we will unleash vast amounts of human potential and recapture the American spirit."
Tim Ryan
Delivered: October 24, 2021
"I consider myself to be as informed on American foreign policy as anyone in America."
Joe Biden
Delivered: October 29, 2021
"Bathtub falls and police officers kill more Americans than terrorism, yet we've been asked to sacrifice our most sacred rights for fear of falling victim to it."
Edward Snowden
Delivered: October 31, 2021
"Banning guns addresses a fundamental right of all Americans to feel safe."
Dianne Feinstein
Delivered: October 25, 2021
"By 'flat' I did not mean that the world is getting equal. I said that more people in more places can now compete, connect and collaborate with equal power and equal tools than ever before. That's why an Indian in Bangalore can take care of the office work of American doctors or read the X-rays of German hospitals."
Thomas Friedman
Delivered: October 7, 2021
"The behavioral scientist Karen Stenner has written very eloquently about people who have what she calls an authoritarian predisposition, a personality type that is bothered by complexity and is especially enraged by disagreement. Trump has made himself into the spokesperson for precisely these American authoritarians."
Anne Applebaum
Delivered: October 14, 2021
"I think if we go back and check our record, the Negro has proven beyond a doubt that we have been more than patient in seeking our rights as American citizens."
Jackie Robinson
Delivered: October 27, 2021