Is there any lesson people in Nigeria and Africa can learn from the experiences of America?
SECRETARY CLINTON: I think that’s a wonderful question. I mean, we are an old democracy; Nigeria is a young democracy. We had many problems along the way trying to improve our democracy. But what we believe is that you must have free, fair, credible elections. You must have an independent judiciary, a free press with many different voices protecting minority rights, a parliament that holds the executive department accountable, strong laws to punish financial corruption and abuse of power. Those are the ingredients that then give people in our country, even if they disagree with how an election came out, the belief that everything will turn out okay, that the institutions will do what’s right. And we argue all the time in America. You see us on TV. We’re always arguing. But I ran for office against President Obama. I lost, then I supported him because I thought it was the best thing for the country. Then when he won, he asked me to become the Secretary of State. I think we understand th
