Mexico has become a robust democracy with a robust press and an active legislature. It has gone from being a sending country for migrants to a transit country, and increasingly a receiving country for migrants in its own right.

The highest measure of democracy is neither the 'extent of freedom' nor the 'extent of equality', but rather the highest measure of participation.

A free press is the immune system of representative democracy.

For me, the most serious problem is how America became so vulnerable to the assertion of blatant falsehoods that drive policy and are not corrected by the so-called immune system of democracy, a free press and a free democratic discourse.

If you look at the way all of the new reform movements dedicated to the public interest are living and thriving on the Internet, I do think there is still some considerable hope that the full participation of individuals in that conversation of democracy can once again restore the integrity of the way our democracy works.

American democracy is in grave danger from the changes in the environment in which ideas either live and spread or wither and die.

In the age of the internet, with all of its problems, over time, the very fact that individuals can join the conversation creates the opportunity for the emergence of - for the re-emergence of a genuine conversation of democracy.

The modern infrastructures that exists in the world all contribute to the advancement of human rights and democracy.

Let me begin by saying not only you can't have democracy with $75 million. You can't even have it with $750 billion.

When there is a crisis, the first thing that gets damaged and gets harmed is democracy.