By needlessly provoking him [Vladimir Putin] and humiliating him, we empower far worse possibilities in Russia.

We have a First Amendment for good reasons. We need a free press because without an educated electorate we cannot have a functioning democracy.

I'm trained as a medical doctor - that's my field: I've been practicing long enough to see how extremely broken our health care system is, how broken our health is, the link between that and the environment.

We deserve elections we can trust.

We need to really use the full force of diplomacy. And we need to be seen and understood to be on the side of diplomacy and international law.

Democracy is not what we hate the most and what we fear the most. We need to stand up.

If you've been paying attention to politics for the last, you know, 30 years, it would not have shocked you, but what was amazing was that there it was, you know, in irrefutable colors, you know, there on paper, or there on your computer screen.