American greatness was elevated significantly after Sputnik.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Sputnik quickly became one of the three great shocks to hit America - historians say the equal of Pearl Harbor or 9/11.
And everything stopped quite rapidly because I knew that nobody in Europe was able to go to space. It was the privilege of being either American or Russian.
From leading the world into the age of democracy to spearheading the technological revolution, America has always been at the forefront of greatness.
America's greatness is largely because of how we value the weakest among us.
To make America the greatest is my goal, so I beat the Russian and I beat the Pole. And for the U.S.A. won the medal of gold. The Greeks said, 'You're better than the Cassius of old.'
Even before Sputnik, scientists and policy makers worried that not enough Americans were studying science.
In order for the United States to do the right things for the long term, it appears to be helpful for us to have the prospect of humiliation. Sputnik helped us fund good science - really good science: the semiconductor came out of it.
The greatness of America is capitalism, free market capitalism. The exceptionalism of American business.
Well, in 1947... in Europe and in Italy especially, we thought of America as all-powerful.
The Chinese were good to us. The war years for us Russians in China were very good years.
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