Madeleine Albright: “I think they are so stunningly damaging to America's position that I find it hard to believe that somebody that is in…”

A democracy is always a journey.

I don't think it's a western concept that we're too pushy about. I don't believe you can ever be too pushy about democracy.

There is a movement on the other side. There is kind of rising nationalism in a number of different countries.

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.