I think that one of the best ways that you can address the issue of women's education and girls and women's enterprises is to get more women elected to leadership positions in political institutions.

I wonder if we are not spreading the wrong message.

Democracy is on the ropes and it's being challenged.

They're going to continue. But I think we are able to really help them--give them solidarity, give them technical support, give them financial support.

I tend to look at this as a glass half full and we may be talking differently 10 years from now.

We cannot afford cuts to democracy and governance programs right now or, when it's appropriated, fail to implement programs because of directives from the White House or Embassies abroad.

So promoting democracy, helping to advance our democratic values around the world--the work that your three organizations do--should be at the center of our foreign policy.

Our form of government empowers the people.

Attacking the free press, the way I see it, is an attack on democracy.

The State Department even removed democracy from its mission statement. What does that say about American values and American leadership?

Just want to follow up a little bit on Mr. Deutch's question a little bit, and I mean this--I know you want to get away from partisan kind of issues but sometimes you can't.

What about rule of law issue where these partisan attacks on enforcement agencies like the FBI or attacks on the judiciary based on the family history and nationality of one of the judges?