Madeleine Albright: “What the president is trying to do is to impose democracy, which is an oxymoron.”

Corruption is the cancer of democracy, and I think it is something that has to be worked on very actively.

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.

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.

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.