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"[...] It's an accumulation of a lot of things that have been pursued either with good intentions or with arrogance, but nevertheless are coming to an end. And I mean the long sweep of history from World War II, mostly triumphant for America and very successful, in which we stood up to run the world. And I say that not cynically or critically, even.

"But that led us into a lot of stuff, both at home and abroad, which has been, I think, wrong, but also debilitating. And I'm talking about the end of that era. Number one is over. Not going to be any headlines announcing that, but in many different ways, it will be good for the world and good for this country, for America, if we can back off of that history and reconsider ourselves as a country, I mean, as a society ...]"

-- William Greider, on the PBS television program, Charlie Rose, 2009-05-11 (video and transcript):