Madeleine Albright: “What Putin wants is to break up Europe. That is my sense that that is his agenda.”

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.

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

Our rivals will not soon let the world forget the spectacle of American democracy under siege from within.

But in the vast majority of cases, support for democracy serves both our interests and our ideals.