Has the West Lost It? Quotes

“In the summer of 2017, Putin was vilified by the American media for having interfered in American elections. Such interference is clearly wrong. Yet no American leader asked the obvious question in this 2017 debate: has America interfered in other countries' elections? Dov Levin of the Institute of Politics and Strategy at Carnegie Melon University has compiled a database documenting that it has - more than 80 times between 1946 and 2000.”
― Kishore Mahbubani, Has the West Lost It?: A Provocation

“John Norberg of the Cato Institute notes: 'If someone had told you in 1990 that over the next twenty-five years world hunger would decline by 40 per cent, child mortality would halve, and extreme poverty would fall by three quarters, you'd have told them they were a naive fool. But the fools were right. This is truly what has happened.' Having experienced Third World poverty as a child, I know that nothing drags down the human spirit more than a sense of helplessness, uncertainty and fear of the future. A small regular income and access to basic goods like TV sets and refrigerators also improve one's sense of well-being. In short, the eradication of poverty is spiritually uplifting.”
― Kishore Mahbubani, Has the West Lost It?: A Provocation