"Once you are in the Customs Union, you are locked in, and you have essentially sealed your fate as to essentially tie your economy to one country, and one country only."
"I just think that is important to point out, is that a decision to join yourselves with the European Union not only opens yourself up to the benefit of that association, but does not foreclose your ab..."
"The United States can and should tell the Russian authorities that such a step would be impermissible."
"Our tactics start to look somewhat similar to the tactics that the Russians are using."
"We have been very clear with respect to what Yanukovych needs to do with respect to Tymoshenko."
"If Yanukovych walks away from this summit without an agreement, how does he explain this to the people of the Ukraine?"
"If the Ukraine fails to sign in Vilnius, might probably be President Yanukovych himself."
"President Yanukovych is 'a' President of Ukraine. He will be a transitional figure."
"While this is a disruption to a large section of the economy, my confidence that, in the end, there are going to be far, far more winners than losers is rooted in part in Connecticut's experience."
"I think at some level this should be an exercise in setting the right expectations, that when you undergo this kind of effort to reorder a healthcare system that everyone on this committee agrees is b..."
"Their problem wasn't that they got dropped from coverage. Their problem was that they couldn't find any coverage, and their story can be told millions of times over."
"But we cannot survive as a nation if we continue to spiral upwards over $1 trillion in student debt."