Madeleine Albright: “The United States must lead.”

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.

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.

When it comes to holding fair elections, there is no comparison: denial of the franchise, not deception at the polls, is by far the bigger problem.

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