“The leaders in this room need to understand that the moment we are living in is not defined by Donald Trump—it is defined by us and the choices that we are going to make as a nation. Trump and our supposed leaders draw our attention to everything but the challenges we face. They draw our attention to their personalities, vendettas and performative antics—and while they have done that, America’s infrastructure has fallen to 13th globally. While we were alienating our allies because they did not give us the Nobel Peace Prize, our kids fell to the middle of the pack among developed nations in science and math education outcomes. These are not abstract statistics. They are the real-world costs of a country that has been distracted for far too long from its own future—from the future of the people in this room, our kids, our families. That has been the cost of the last 10 years of our politics. And, unfortunately, that is by design. The chief bet being made by China, Russia and every authoritarian country watching us right now is that American democracy is too chaotic, too self-referential, too divided to focus on a singular goal long enough to see it through. We cannot let them be right about that.”