Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Comments to State Department advisory committee on democracy promotion, 10/8/08: “It has been very hard in Egypt. The progress has not been everything in Egypt that we would have hoped for. We have had setbacks there, we have had disappointments there. It is very hard when I have to sit in front of young democracy advocates and have them say ‘Why have you not been advocating more on our behalf’. We have been. We are not going to fail to have relations with the Egyptian government but we do advocate on their behalf.”