Madeleine Albright: “We cannot and will not give in to those who threaten us.”

I don't think it's a western concept that we're too pushy about. I don't believe you can ever be too pushy about democracy.

A democracy is always a journey.

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.

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.