Jared Kushner

And I think in the course of World War I, it was one of the greatest atrocities that we've seen as humanity.

We've had 16 million people killed in that war.

And as I was reading the book, I remember thinking to myself, even though things are set in a certain way, go sit with somebody, go talk to them and say, this doesn't make sense, this is wrong.

How do we create a better pathway?

And as a civilian, all my life, I would read the newspapers, I would observe how different leaders would act.

But when we had the opportunity to serve in government and have the position, you realize you're not a civilian.

You don't have the luxury of sitting back and letting the world happen the way it's happening.

You have agency and you have the potential to influence the outcome of things.

And one thing I've seen is, you know, most political prognosticators are wrong.

Anyone who tells you what's going to happen really has no clue.

And it's not because they're bad or they're not intelligent.

It's because nobody knows.

And at the end of the day, the outcomes in the world are usually driven by the decisions of humans themselves.

And if you're able to come together, form relationships, listen to each other, you can do that.

And one of the great examples that I speak about in the book is with North Korea.

Whereas if you remember in 2017, it was very intense.

When President Obama was leaving office, he told President Trump that the single biggest fear that he had, and this is a time when the world was a mess.

You had

The Middle East was on fire.

ISIS was beheading journalists and killing Christians.