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.'