Madeleine Albright: “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…”

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.

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.

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

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.