I made it clear that we will not tolerate attempts to violate our democratic sovereignty or destabilize our democratic elections. And we would respond.

I made it clear to him that I believe the consequences of that would be devastating for Russia.

It`s ridiculous. It`s ridiculous.

What is going to happen next, we`re going to be able to look back, look ahead, in three to six months, and say, did the things we agreed to sit down and try to work out, did it work?

Every generation has to reestablish the basis of this fight for democracy. I mean for real. I`ve never seen including during since the Civil War, such an outward assault.

This is a big (EXPLETIVE DELETED) deal.

This is about practical, straightforward, no nonsense decisions that we have to make or not make.

I pointed out to him that we have significant cyber capability and he knows it. He doesn`t exactly what it is but it is significant. And if, in fact, they violate these basic norms, we will respond. Cyber. He knows.

This is about how we move from here. This is about practical, straightforward, no nonsense decisions that we have to make or not make. We`ll find out within the next six months to a year whether or not we actually have a strategic dialogue…

Certain critical infrastructure should be off limits to attack, period, by cyber any other means. I gave them a list. If I’m not mistaken, I don’t have it in front of me, 16 specific entities, 16 defined as critical infrastructure under…

This is a day of profound, in my view, profound weight and profound power.

I also told him that no President of the United States could keep faith with the American people if they did not speak out to defend our democratic values.

Whether I stopped it from happening again -- he knows I will take action, like we did when -- this last time out. We, in fact, made it clear that we were not going to continue to allow this to go on.

I told President Putin my agenda is not against Russia, or anyone else. It’s for the American people. It’s not about just going after Russia when they violate human rights. It’s about who we are. We need to have some basic rules of the…

I did what I came to do.

I made it clear that we will not tolerate attempts to violate our democratic sovereignty or destabilize our democratic elections and we would respond.

Every generation has to reestablish the basis of this fight for democracy. I mean, for real, literally have to do it.

Mitch has been nothing but no for a long time. And I’m sure he means exactly what he says.

I am a skilled practitioner of foreign affairs. I am going to lower the temperature, I am going to bring America's position in the world and back into something that you will find more recognizable to what it was before the era of Donald…

I owe my last questioner an apology. I shouldn't have been such a wise guy with the last answer I gave.

I made it clear to him that I believe the consequences of that would be devastating for Russia. What do you think happens when he is saying it's not about hurting Navalny, all the stuff he says to rationalize the treatment of Navalny, and…

I said -- I said -- what I said was -- let's get it straight, I said what will change their behavior is if the rest of the world reacts to them, and it diminishes their standing in the world.

I don't think he is looking for a Cold War with the United States. I don't think it is about -- as I said to him, I said your generation and mine are about 10 years apart. This is not a Khumbaya moment as we used to say back in the '60s in…

The bottom line is, I told President Putin that we need to have basic rules of the road that we can all abide by. I also said there are areas where there is a mutual interest for us to cooperate, for our people, Russian and American…

I looked President Putin in the eye and said, do you want your infrastructure to be attacked? What would it be like if your oil fields were not working out?