Madeleine Albright: “The Bible and the Quran are filled with a choice of which rhetoric you want to choose to employ, and you can make war or…”

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.

A democracy is always a journey.

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.

I have not found that being a woman is a handicap. In fact, I've found it a terrific gender to be.