China has legally purchased high performance computers advanced machine tools and semiconductor-manufacturing equipment from several American companies.

The eventual place the American army should take on the western front was to a large extent influenced by the vital question of communication and supply.

On the other hand the American public possesses a great resilience and strength and good risk communication strategies can tap into and even amplify those assets.

The Bush-Cheney administration had betrayed some basic American values. So there was hunger for change.

Obama has no power to change American policy because there are people who specialize in drawing these policies which have been and still are hostile towards Islam.

I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.

One-third of Americans have already been forced to change their lifestyle because their disposable income is gone. A guy can't go to the corner bar after a rough day at work to have a beer that's gone to oil!

I don't think anything changes until ideas change. The usual American viewpoint is to believe that something is wrong with the person.

Few expected very much of Franklin Roosevelt on Inauguration Day in 1933. Like Barack Obama seventy-six years later he was succeeding a failed Republican president and Americans had voted for change. What that change might be Roosevelt never clearly said probably because he himself didn't know.

We the people. Manifest Destiny. Conceived in liberty. Fear itself. Ask not. Morning in America. United we stand. Yes we can. In times of great change and tumult presidents seek to inspire beleaguered Americans by reminding them of their national identity.