的确，民主依靠那些拒绝沉默、敢于冒险站出来的人。他们提醒世人：自由从不是理所当然，而是必须以言语、以勇气、以坚定的意志去守护。
在当今民主面临数十年来最严峻挑战的时刻，诺贝尔委员会将和平奖授予马查多，意义非凡，正当其时。
祝贺委内瑞拉人民！
也向世界各地为自由与民主奋斗的人们致敬！

At this critical moment, when democracy faces its most formidable challenges in decades, the Nobel Committee’s decision to honor María Corina Machado could not be more timely or more consequential.
Congratulations to the people of Venezuela. Congratulations to democracy fighters around the world.

Indeed, democracy depends on those who refuse to remain silent, who dare to step forward despite grave risk, and who remind us that freedom must never be taken for granted. It must always be defended—with words, with courage, and with unyielding determination.

He urged intellectuals and citizens alike to resist hatred, to choose conscience over obedience, and to recognize that democracy cannot be bestowed from above—it must grow from the bottom up, through personal awakening and the practice of truth-telling.

Liu warned that without individual moral courage and civic responsibility, even the best-intentioned reforms would collapse into new forms of tyranny.

In many ways, Machado embodies the spirit of the late Nobel Peace Laureate Liu Xiaobo, whom I had the honor of representing at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony on December 10, 2010.