Linda Thomas-Greenfield: “One person one vote elections will be critical for shifting political influence away from power brokers to the people.”

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.

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…

These are people, as you noted, who have fled persecution in their countries. They have come to the United States with hope and desires. And we`re a country of immigrants. We have always welcomed immigrants into this country. And to have…

You know, we had 14 members of the security council today say to Russia, loudly and clearly, that`s what they are doing in Ukraine is unacceptable.