I think you have a deeply anxious leadership in China that knows its legitimacy is drifting away, that’s sending its [personal] money and its childre…

- Larry Diamond

I think that it’s premature to call Libya a democracy because political order is still so fragile there and the command by the state over the means o…

- Larry Diamond

The problem in Burma is the problem in Egypt, the problem you refer to in Yemen, and the problem in a lot of these countries in the world: that you c…

- Larry Diamond

I think it is extremely important that the West support this experiment [of Tunisian democracy] with investment, with aid, with symbolic support, not…

- Larry Diamond

I am very optimistic about the long run prospects for democracy in China. Chinese society is being dramatically and rapidly transformed. And there’s …

- Larry Diamond