"It's the American leadership that has not played the role it should be playing and that leaders in other countries have been playing."

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When Vladimir Putin runs up against American power and American criticism and American leadership that reminds him of what Russia isn`t, when he runs up against people who he worries are funding his dissidents or supporting protests against him, when he runs up against criticism of the way he runs his own country, what he`s running up against is the State Department.

— Rachel Maddow