That at a moment of unprecedented globalization we are closing U.S. embassies and consulates. We are cutting funding to international organizations. We are cutting funding for various kinds of scholarship and exchange programs. It's a choice that the political process has made and in my judgment it is a profoundly dangerous and uninformed one. And whatever happens in the election, I hope that concerned citizens, and the concerned citizens who will lead something like this, or the kind of people who study global issues who are in this room will make the case that the United States as a country needs to be doing more and that if it does not we risk reaping what we sow through our inattention.
Summers warns of change .