“I have great sympathy with America. It's very, it's very tough to be the only remaining superpower in the world.”

—  F. W. de Klerk

Interview with Richard Stengel https://web.archive.org/web/20110622073025/http://www.cfr.org/southern-africa/hbo-history-makers-series-frederik-willem-de-klerk/p7114?breadcrumb=%2Fregion%2F151%2Fsouthern_africa (8 June 2004) <br class="br">2000s, 2004

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