Americans are good people, and at times we can be wise. But we're often under-informed by media, misinformed by our government and ill-served by both.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We Americans typically are more positive about our individual futures, which we have some control over, than we are the nation's or the world's, which we see largely through the media prism.
America is a fundamentally good country. We have good people with good values who want to do the right thing. But the structures of power that exist are working to their own ends to extend their capability at the expense of the freedom of all publics.
We Americans are as great as we have ever been. But our government is broken.
There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled.
There's something about the openness of the American people. Yes, we have our faults, but deep down, there's a goodness. America doesn't want to take over the world; in many ways, we don't want to be bothered by the rest of the world.
One of the great problems with Americans is that - being a decent people - they assume that everyone else is equally decent.
Americans are very practical folks. Accustomed to hard choices in their own lives, they are willing to give us in intelligence a lot of slack as we make the hard choices our profession demands.
We in the media are just people with all of people's faults.
This self-congratulatory notion Americans have that their country is Number One is borne of ignorance and bad manners.
I think the press are good people; I think they're educated people.
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