The private sector needs to be a voice for democracy.

I completely reject that view, but it is one that is being effectively promoted.

If you and other social media companies do not get your act in order, none of us are going to have any privacy anymore.

We have to start from the basis that we are in a competition.

The world has always been influenced by whatever the most powerful country in the world's model is.

The one thing they all have in common is authoritarianism in some way, shape, or form.

We want to know if it is going to be enough.

If Facebook and other social media and online companies don't do a better job as stewards of our personal information, American consumers are no longer going to have any privacy to protect.

I have asked Chairman Thune to haul Cambridge Analytica in to answer these questions at a separate hearing.

That in essence is what I understood Ms. Sandberg to say. Is that correct?

Facebook has a responsibility to protect this personal information.

We want to haul Cambridge Analytica in to answer these questions at a separate hearing.

How can American consumers trust folks like your company to be caretakers of their most personal and identifiable information?

Well, the recent scandal is obviously frustrating not only because it affected 87 million but because it seems to be part of a pattern of lax data practices by the company going back years.

That is where we get a lot of complaints from American companies seeking to do work in the region.

The United States does have a very potent power of example.

They point to our model and say, 'It is dysfunctional.'

And that would be a mistake. I think the best thing for the President and for the country is that Mueller be allowed to finish his work.