Jeg erindrer, at præsident Clinton i sin anden tiltrædelsestale kunne prale af, at der i dag er flere mennesker, der lever under et demokratisk styre end under et tyranni. Vi afsluttede forrige århundrede med en verden, der på to eller tre år producerede lige så meget som i hele det 19. århundrede med uvurderlige følger for de fleste menneskers levestandard.
I recall that, at the time of President Clinton's second inaugural address, he was able to boast that there are today more people living under democracies than under tyrannies; we ended the last century with a world which produced as much in two or three years as we had produced in the whole of the 19th century, with incalculable consequences for the living standards of most people.