Stephen J. Hadley: “Freedom, democracy, human rights, and the rule of law are the very DNA of this Nation.”

America has never accepted the idea that it had to choose between its democratic principles and its interests.

I think the reason that the free world follows us and that despots and dictators fear us is because of our values.

We need to have not just be talking about democracy; we've got to have a conscious strategy for how to counter what they're doing.

Our best information operation has always been truth and trying to get it to the people in these closed societies because what is really the toxic element for them is actually truth about what is happening in the world.