" In most respects, this limitation is the strongest in the United States. Consider the fact that President Xi’s education included reading American authors from Alexander Hamilton to Ernest Hemingway. How many American politicians have read comparable Chinese authors? With more than twenty-five hundred years of rich history, the problem is not a lack of supply but a shortage of interest. As history has demonstrated repeatedly, if the United States is going to navigate global challenges, it will need leaders who understand the world. "

― , Tools and Weapons: The Promise and the Peril of the Digital Age