Madeleine Albright: “I think that Putin needs an enemy, and that is what he has been doing.”

I have always been a grateful American, and I was taught by my father to appreciate both the fragility of democracy and its resilience.

On Kosovo, our shared goal should be for it to become a normal country in the United Nations, part of the regular international system, and with all the rights of international law to defend its territory.

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.

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.