"American business has just forgotten the importance of selling."
Barry Goldwater
Delivered: November 4, 2021
"In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins."
Newt Gingrich
Delivered: November 9, 2021
"Nationality is a very curious thing. The blood is Scots and the temperament is Scots, but I am, in fact, 100% American."
Alexander Mackendrick
Delivered: November 13, 2021
"After the 9/11 incidents, Islam has become a big question mark among westerners, especially Americans. The mass media constantly raise the issue of relationship between Islam and terrorism."
Abdolkarim Soroush
Delivered: November 21, 2021
"Presenting the American songbook as a living, breathing entity that's expanding all the time is very important."
Chris Thile
Delivered: November 20, 2021
"Let's be honest - tracking down, rounding up, and deporting millions of people isn't realistic. Anyone who suggests otherwise isn't being straight with you. It's also not who we are as Americans."
Barack Obama
Delivered: November 30, 2021
"The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the cold war, is that the engine of capitalism, the individual, is mightier than any collective."
Rand Paul
Delivered: November 10, 2021
"There's something about an American soldier you can't explain. They're so grateful for anything, even a film actress coming to see them."
Marlene Dietrich
Delivered: November 17, 2021
"A war in the Taiwan Strait would destroy China's international relations overnight. It would destroy Chinese - Japanese relations, not to mention Chinese - American relations."
William C. Kirby
Delivered: November 24, 2021
"The white usurpation in our common country must be stopped, or we, its rightful owners, be forever destroyed and wiped out as a race of people. I am now at the head of many warriors backed by the strong arm of English soldiers. Choctaws and Chickasaws, you have too long borne with grievous usurpation inflicted by the arrogant Americans."
Tecumseh
Delivered: November 25, 2021
"Trump's behavior is deeply disturbing but hardly surprising. His mercurial nature is not the product of a post-inaugural adder sting at Mar-a-Lago. It's been there all along. And the American electorate chose him nonetheless."
Charles Krauthammer
Delivered: November 19, 2021
"On the surface, I've created a good life. I've lived the American dream. But I am still an undocumented immigrant."
Jose Antonio Vargas
Delivered: November 27, 2021
"When I wrote 'Pink Houses,' nobody was talking about that, right? The next thing I know, you can't see the TV without hearing commercials with 'Listen to the heartbeat of America,' or 'Born the American way.' That whole America thing now - I hate it."
John Mellencamp
Delivered: November 2, 2021
"I don't concentrate on any one period of history; I like to locate my stories in wildly different eras and places. I seem to be drawn to large, sprawling, uncomfortable swaths of American history, finding embedded within them a tight narrative that involves strife, heroism, and survival under difficult circumstances."
Hampton Sides
Delivered: November 5, 2021
"By the '40s, Sam Goldwyn is a very serious man. By the '50s, he's the dean of American producers. To the end, he was Hollywood's gray eminence."
A. Scott Berg
Delivered: November 14, 2021
"I believe in the American promise and I think is up to those of us who have been honored with the opportunity to represent the people of our state to make that promise true for every American."
Raphael Warnock
Delivered: November 23, 2021
"The beauty of our democracy lies in the American value of equality: if you vote, you have a seat at the table. If you speak, you have a chance to persuade others. A billionaire and a minimum wage earner have the same power at the ballot box."
Christine Pelosi
Delivered: November 3, 2021
"Of all the American educational system's problems, none is more severe than the academic year beginning before Labor Day."
P. J. O'Rourke
Delivered: November 16, 2021
"The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams."
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Delivered: November 18, 2021
"President Biden should put Americans First."
Marjorie Taylor Greene
Delivered: November 26, 2021
"I do not hesitate one second to state clearly and unmistakably: I belong to the American resistance movement which fights against American imperialism, just as the resistance movement fought against Hitler."
Paul Robeson
Delivered: November 29, 2021
"It's wrong, and it's racist, and it's bigoted to say that guns are quintessentially American."
Alan Dershowitz
Delivered: November 28, 2021
"The Vietnamese see their history as an unending series of struggles of resistance to aggression, by the Chinese, the Mongols, the Japanese, the French, and now the Americans."
Noam Chomsky
Delivered: November 11, 2021
"I made a movie to explain to the American public what had been achieved in regards to disarmament of Iraq and why inspectors aren't in Iraq today and detailing the very complex, murky history of interaction between Iraq, the United Nations and the United States. It is most definitely not a pro-Iraq movie. It is a pro-truth movie."
Scott Ritter
Delivered: November 12, 2021
"At one time, you could sit on the Rue de la Paix in Paris or at the Habima Theater in Tel Aviv or in Medina and you could see a person come in, black, white, it didn't matter. You said, 'That's an American' because there's a readiness to smile and to talk to people."
Maya Angelou
Delivered: November 22, 2021
"How do we prevent Iran developing an atomic bomb, when, on the American side, dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki is not recognised as a war crime?"
Gunter Grass
Delivered: December 1, 2021
"My favourite moment from the Oscars was when Brando didn't attend and sent a Native American woman to talk about Wounded Knee. She delivered a very unpopular and lengthy monologue about the injustice for indigenous people in North America. It was one of the greatest moments in American television."
Anohni
Delivered: November 7, 2021
"In Texas, the rangers were established on an ad hoc basis in the 1820s to protect the settlers making inroads into Spanish borderlands. Soon, Mexicans and Mexican Americans replaced Native Americans as the prime target of ranger repression."
Greg Grandin
Delivered: November 6, 2021
"The United States was born in revolution and nurtured by struggle. Throughout our history, the American people have befriended and supported all those who seek independence and a better way of life."
Robert Kennedy
Delivered: November 8, 2021
"I started cooking seven years ago for real, and I started with pasta, and lasagna and roast chicken. Very normal American dishes. When I turned on Food Network, or any sort of cooking channel, that's what people were making. So that's where your education comes from."
Aarti Sequeira
Delivered: November 15, 2021