Madeleine Albright: “Poroshenko is himself an oligarch, as are most of the folks in senior leadership positions in Ukraine.”

They are an adversary, there is no question, militarily in terms of the kinds of things that they are doing in the South and East China Sea and threatening Taiwan.

I do think that a new Administration does have a chance to really examine the relationship, and not be kind of, you know, rose-colored glasses about it.

Building and sustaining democracy should be a first principle, not an afterthought, in U.S. foreign and national security policy.

Putin is small and pale, so cold as to be almost reptilian, embarrassed by what happened to his country and determined to restore its greatness.