Bill Clinton: “Well, I think it can be. But I think we have to think very carefully about how we want to define that. I mean, look what…”

“Well, I think it can be. But I think we have to think very carefully about how we want to define that. I mean, look what we know will happen. We know that, barring some completely unforeseen event, China and, sometime thereafter, India will have economies that look bigger than ours, because they've got so many more people than we do, 4 times as many people; in the case of China, even more. We know that Europe will grow more integrated, I think, in the 21st century. And the European Union will be more and more a union. And they have 50 percent more people than we do, and they could have a lot more than that if they continue to bring in other countries. So I do not believe that we will have the relative economic dominance we have today. We've got about 4 percent of the world's people and almost 22 percent of the world's income. But I think we can be still very prosperous. I think we can still be the strongest individual country in the world in many ways. But I think we will have to build partnerships with some of those who resent us now. We will have to have an increasingly interdependent world. Because, whether we like it or not--it's like globalization; interdependence is another word for globalization--we will become more interdependent, and we'll have to learn to be adroit at that. We won't be able to just say, ``Well, if we like it, we're here, and if we don't, we'll walk away.'' We'll have to really work on our partnership skills. Future Allies Mr. Rose. You touched on something that I've thought about. This century was marked by our friends becoming our enemies--France and Germany--our enemies becoming our friends. Is that going to be part of the 21st century, people we now look on as rivals become friends, friends become----”