Madeleine Albright: “I do believe in American leadership, but not in the way that, you know, we do all the work and the heavy lifting.”

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.

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 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.