Madeleine Albright: “What Putin wants is to break up Europe. That is my sense that that is his agenda.”

I think he wanted the right thing for America, I think he was a genuine patriot.

The problem with a 'pale, male, and Yale' State Department is that it is a direct affront to the American values of democracy, opportunity and, yes, diversity.

A democracy is always a journey.

Like other authoritarians, he equates his well-being with that of the nation, opposition with treason. Because he believes that the U.S. dominates its own region by force, he thinks Russia has the same right.