If both China and Russia were liberal democracies, I don’t think we would be having conversations about great power competition. So I believe that re… - Michael McFaul

We got to get our democracy in order at home, but we can walk and chew gum at the same time. Two wrongs do not make a right.

It’s incumbent upon all people to believe in the facts and to keep pushing it. You can’t constrain free speech, but you can speak more loudly about what is factual.

We're not good at point predictions. But we are pretty good at some long-term trajectory things, over hundreds of years, right? Over hundreds of years, there's a pretty strong correlation between the more well-to-do a society is, the more educated it is, the more urban it is, the more income GDP per capita, the more likely there is to be demand for democracy.