I have sung for Americans of every political persuasion and I am proud that I never refuse to sing to an audience no matter what religion or color of their skin or situation in life.

The American way was for commerce personal relationships and religion to be voluntary. No one was forced to participate in something he didn't want.

Religion for better or for worse has been politicized in blatant ways that have seldom been equaled in American elections.

There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled. Religion is the best device used to mislead them.

The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.

I'm sickened by all religions. Religion has divided people. I don't think there's any difference between the pope wearing a large hat and parading around with a smoking purse and an African painting his face white and praying to a rock.

You know I think that President Obama is a person who has a great relationship with a number of people. Colin Powell does too. I think Colin Powell is a fine American a great leader and sees things in President Obama that he agrees with. He's entitled to have his opinion.

I'd had a relationship with a French girl a Japanese girl an American girl a Filippina and she was there all the time - a Lancashire girl. I thought: 'It's a Lancashire girl I was looking for. Why didn't I realize it?'

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.