Madeleine Albright: “I do think that the time is coming for a cease -- an ending to the fighting and a move to diplomatic means.”

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.

There is a movement on the other side. There is kind of rising nationalism in a number of different countries.

I think he wanted the right thing for America, I think he was a genuine patriot.

Corruption is the cancer of democracy, and I think it is something that has to be worked on very actively.