The Church of TED is very optimistic. Bulgarians are some of the most pessimistic in the world. There are the Happy, the Unhappy and the Bulgarians.

Bulgaria has been deindustrialized by interest groups who extracted state assets like oil states extract the oil in their ground.

Transparency is not about restoring trust in institutions. Transparency is the politics of managing mistrust.

As a rule, governments monitor people.

The Church of TED is very optimistic. Bulgarians are some of the most pessimistic in the world. There are the Happy, the Unhappy and the Bulgarians.

[It's] difficult to engage people in politics when they believe that what really matters is where they personally stand.

Democracy is the only game in town. The problem is [when] people start to believe that it is not a game worth playing.