Madeleine Albright: “But membership in NATO is not a gift. It is a responsibility.”

The failure to pay our old U.N. bills undermines our ability to recruit allies with the kind of structural reform that Congress demands.

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

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.

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.