Linda Thomas-Greenfield: “It is true that we have not had a large summit and I look forward to the one that we are going to have.”

It’s very difficult to take any of the five permanent members with veto rights over anything that goes on in the Security Council, it’s hard to get them off.

It means that President Putin is continuing to escalate this war in a manner that is totally unacceptable.

Well, first and foremost, the Russians need to understand that this is not going to be business as usual for them. They have attacked their neighbor. They have attacked the core -- the soul -- of the U.N. charter. They have attacked all of…

We are stronger than we ever were before in terms of the European Union, NATO. All of this was not part of Putin`s plan. I think he thought that we would start to fray around the edges very, very quickly.