“America is not on the decline. Its reputation has suffered [setbacks] as a result of [long and messy military occupations], as well as severe financial crises….Each time, it found the will and energy to recover its position at the front of the pack. America has prevailed. It will do so again.
The success of America lies in its dynamic economy, sustained by an uncanny ability not just to produce the same with less, but to constantly innovate. That is, to invent completely new goods and services that the rest of the world soon finds to be useful and desirable…And that spark means that the Americans can be expected to throw up game-changing innovations from time to time that will again put them in the forefront.”
— Lee Kuan Yew
