The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.

The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood.

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.

Donald Trump is a phenomenon that foreign countries haven't seen. So it is a shocking experience to them that he came in to office.