"I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government."
Ferdinand Marcos
Delivered: December 19, 2021
"I say let's not gamble with American jobs and America's future."
John Glenn
Delivered: December 31, 2021
"Nine out of ten Americans believe that out of ten people, one person will always disagree with the other nine!"
Colin Mochrie
Delivered: December 4, 2021
"Bankruptcy is about financial death and financial rebirth. Bankruptcy is the great American story rewritten. We're a nation of debtors."
Elizabeth Warren
Delivered: December 17, 2021
"Most Americans don't even understand what I'm saying in my records, but they pick up on the vibe, the vibration."
Burna Boy
Delivered: December 6, 2021
"One of the greatest things about our band is that we bring the American dream to the world. Here's a bunch of kids that were living in nowhere New Jersey, and we made it through a lot of practice and a lot of work and a lot of luck. It shows the world, 'If we did it, you can do it.'"
David Bryan
Delivered: December 15, 2021
"They don't call it the Italian Dream or the English Dream. In America, there is the American Dream. It was the first place to give people of any social background their dream. You can achieve anything."
Fabio Lanzoni
Delivered: December 28, 2021
"Americans have a profound longing for heroes - now perhaps more than ever. We need our explorers, our sports icons, our Medal of Freedom winners, our Nobel laureates. We need our Greatest Generation warriors, our 'Sully' Sullenbergers, our Neil Armstrongs. On some level, we still subscribe to the myth of the man in the white hat."
Hampton Sides
Delivered: December 7, 2021
"It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common."
Stephen Fry
Delivered: December 24, 2021
"Liberal whites are the greatest enemy of African Americans."
James Meredith
Delivered: December 26, 2021
"My family is Native American, and I was raised with Native American ceremonies."
Eric Balfour
Delivered: December 2, 2021
"What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences, because it's not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history."
Barney Frank
Delivered: December 23, 2021
"Young feminists have been sold a bill of goods about American feminism. The enormous changes in women over the past 40 years are constantly and falsely attributed to the organized women's movement of the late 1960s and '70s."
Camille Paglia
Delivered: December 11, 2021
"Do we believe housing is a right and that affordable housing is part of what it should mean to be an American? I say yes."
Matthew Desmond
Delivered: December 13, 2021
"When I heard 'Jesus, Take the Wheel,' I was like, OK. Some people look at it as a song written for an American Idol, Carrie Underwood, who is wonderful. But when you're a songwriter listening to a song, you hear something else. I heard that song, and wow."
Lady Gaga
Delivered: December 16, 2021
"We're giving our freedoms away. The American experiment was about freedom. Freedom to be stupid, freedom to fail, freedom to succeed."
Glenn Beck
Delivered: December 22, 2021
"When more Americans prefer freebies to freedom, these great United States will become a fertile ground for tyranny."
Allen West
Delivered: December 18, 2021
"As a newcomer to America who learned to 'speak American' by watching movies, I firmly believe that to change the politics of immigration and citizenship, we must change culture - the way we portray undocumented people like me and our role in society."
Jose Antonio Vargas
Delivered: December 20, 2021
"As far as I'm concerned, the more power we push back to the patient, the individual, the American citizen, the more responsive the system is to her needs. 'Obamacare,is responsive' is like a hammer is responsive to a piece of glass."
Bill Cassidy
Delivered: December 25, 2021
"If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Delivered: December 8, 2021
"Americans like fat books and thin women."
Russell Baker
Delivered: January 1, 2022
"The food I've liked in my time is American country cookin'."
Colonel Sanders
Delivered: December 21, 2021
"Explain to me what Italian-American culture is. We've been here 100 years. Isn't Italian-American culture American culture? That's because we're so diverse, in terms of intermarriage."
Al Pacino
Delivered: December 30, 2021
"The right to a trial is a core principle of the American legal system. Depriving Americans of these essential liberties undermines the Constitution while doing nothing to strengthen our national security."
John Garamendi
Delivered: December 3, 2021
"Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults."
Gore Vidal
Delivered: December 5, 2021
"By the end of the 1950s, American cars were so reliable that their reliability went without saying even in car ads. Thousands of them bear testimony to this today, still running on the roads of Cuba though fueled with nationalized Venezuelan gasoline and maintained with spit and haywire."
P. J. O'Rourke
Delivered: December 9, 2021
"The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt."
Barack Obama
Delivered: December 14, 2021
"The American dream is about freedom."
Nancy Pelosi
Delivered: December 10, 2021
"No one under international copyright law has the right to depict me or my husband without our consent. I have been surprised by the many people, particularly Americans, who are either writing books or going to produce films about the Mandela family without even bothering to consult us."
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
Delivered: December 29, 2021
"As a steward of the U.S.economy and financial systems, the Treasury has helped lay the groundwork for the American economy to become a model of strength, flexibility, dynamism, resiliency. This is a system that generates growth, creates jobs and wealth, rewards initiative, and fosters innovation."
Henry Paulson
Delivered: December 12, 2021
"I am the American Dream."
John Schnatter
Delivered: December 27, 2021