Sidney Poitier became a star in part by helping black and white Americans negotiate their new relationship in the post-Civil Rights era.

The relationship of black Americans to Obama is sociologically riveting.

I continue to believe that the American people have a love-hate relationship with inflation. They hate inflation but love everything that causes it.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

I think that Americans should gradually begin to adopt positive behavior rather than doing evil. They should not expect an immediate reaction in return for their positive measures. It will take time.

Americans try to talk about positive family values although the actual state of things is disastrous.

More Americans own their home than ever before. Nearly 70 percent of American's are homeowners. So it is a good time for us to asses the positive impacts of homeownership on families communities and on the nation's economy.

The large ensemble cast and the fact that it was being shot in New York combined with a lot of strong positive images as far as African Americans are concerned really turned me on to The Best Man.

One out of every 100 American men is HIV positive. The rate of infection has reached epidemic proportions in 40 developing nations.

My wife was the first romantic partner who understood both American and native parts of me - not so much the positive stuff but the damage.

I want people to use Perl. I want to be a positive ingredient of the world and make my American history. So whatever it takes to give away my software and get it used that's great.

We have been blessed with a healthy growing economy with more Americans going back to work and with our Nation acting as a positive force for good in the world.