On the Native American front we have turned a new page in the 400-year history of the interface between the American settlers of this country and the nation's first Americans. That's included a new relationship where the sovereignty of tribes is in fact recognized.

The Federal Government is exploiting public fear to redefine the relationship between the rulers and the American people.

American cinema tends to express a patriotic relationship to national identity on a regular basis.

I have a very long relationship with America. My mother grew up there and I felt to some extent that I partly belong there. I was schooled there briefly for about a year.

The African American's relationship to Africa has long been ambivalent at least since the early nineteenth century when 3 000 black men crowded into Bishop Richard Allen's African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia to protest noisily a plan to recolonize free blacks in Africa.

One thing you can say about nuclear power: the people who believe it is the silver bullet for America's energy problems never give up.

The coal industry is an even larger part of the Australian economy than it is of the American and it has an enormous amount of political power.

The power of the American system of republicanism lies in its capacity to allow religious belief to be a competing not a controlling factor in American life.

Black power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it.

The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses a power which is the principal threat to our democracy.

There are many respects in which America if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the empathy appropriate to its size and power can be an intelligent example to the world.

It seems to me the Washington Monument is a symbol of America's power. It has been the symbol of our great nation. We look at the symbol and we say 'this is one nation under God.'

The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands.

I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators.

I learned a good deal about economics and about America from the author of the Reagan tax reforms - the great Jack Kemp. What gave Jack that incredible enthusiasm was his belief in the possibilities of free people in the power of free enterprise and strong communities to overcome poverty and despair. We need that same optimism right now.

I'm sure we the American people are the butt of jokes by those in power.

For as long as the power of America's diversity is diminished by acts of discrimination and violence against people just because they are black Hispanic Asian Jewish Muslim or gay we still must overcome.

'Smart power' is the use of American power in ways that would help prevent and resolve conflict - not just send our military in.

America has a critical role to play as the most powerful member of the world community.

An American Idol is someone that has all the qualities that America thinks is positive attractive and alluring.

America's biggest export is media and I think that's a positive thing.

From what we've heard about George W. he has a lot issues that he wants to run on. They're positive. They're good. He thinks he's got a good vision for America.

This whole fuss did not only damage Fischer's image but that of the USA as well. The way the Americans treated one of their most popular citizens did not make a positive impression worldwide.

We need a positive economic agenda that invests in the innovation and growth that will create jobs for middle class families and ensure that America remains the world leader.