Madeleine Albright: “The failure to pay our old U.N. bills undermines our ability to recruit allies with the kind of structural reform that…”

A democracy is always a journey.

Elections are necessary, but not sufficient.

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

I have always been a grateful American, and I was taught by my father to appreciate both the fragility of democracy and its resilience.