Joe Biden

I came for one simple basic reason, not a joke, to say thank you. Thank you. Thank you, thank you for your service. Thank you for who you are. And thank you for what you're doing.

This is part of the reason, why Americans have - why we've sort of come to understand that Putin may have taken this step, because he thought that we were not unified.

He now sees, this war, in Ukraine, as an attack, not only on the people of Ukraine, but on the concept of democracy, as a governing philosophy.

Folks, I just came by to say thanks. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And what you're always doing, you know. 1 percent of you represent the entire of the Americans, 99 percent of the rest of the country, including me, thank you…

The single most important thing that we can do from the outset is keep the democracies united in our opposition and our effort to curtail the devastation that is occurring at the hands of a man who, quite frankly, I think is a war criminal…

What you`re engaging in is much more than whether or not you can alleviate the pain and suffering of the people of Ukraine. We`re in a new phase of your generation, we`re at an inflection point. Ukrainian people have a lot of backbone…

We would respond. And we would respond if he uses it and the nature of the response will depend on the nature of the use.

My objective is to demonstrate that democracies cannot function in the 21st century.

The very thing that Putin has tried to do from the beginning, and I’ve been saying this since my days as Vice President of the United States, is to break up NATO.

I`ll say the most important fading, it`s for us to stay unified, and the world continue to focus on what a brute this guy is and of all the innocent lives being lost and ruined, and what`s going on. That`s the important thing.

It would -- it would trigger a response in kind, whether or not you are asking if NATO would cross, we would make that decision at the time.

Putin was banking on NATO being split. My early conversation with him in December and early January, it was clear to me he didn’t think we could sustain this cohesion. NATO has never, never been more united than it is today. Putin is…

Both Russia and Ukraine have been the breadbasket of Europe in terms of wheat. We talked about urging all the European countries and everyone else to and trade restrictions on sending limitations on sending food abroad. And so we are in…

I don’t think you’ll find any European leader who thinks that I am not up to the job. The next election, I’d be very fortunate if I had that same man running against me.

If chemical weapons are used against defenseless civilians, they would cause absolutely catastrophic casualties, children, old people, you name it, and that we would enter the war on the part of Ukraine if this happened, that ought to be a…

I did not say that, In fact, the sanctions would deter him. Sanctions never deter. You keep talking about that. Sanctions never deter. The maintenance of sanctions, the maintenance of sanctions, the increasing the pain. That`s what will…

We would respond, we will respond if he uses it. The nature of the response would depend on the nature of the use.

The sanctions will only have a harsher effect. And they've also acknowledged they will continue to ramp up those sanctions, which will continue to take a major chunk out of Vladimir Putin's economy.

I think that the President and his top advisers believe it is working as it is designed to and perhaps better.

So long as President Putin continues the invasion, continues the horrific attacks that we've seen over the course of the last month, the U.S. and its allies will continue to ramp up sanctions.

We would respond. We will respond if he uses it. The nature of the response would depend on the nature of the use.

Today, the administration announced the U.S. will take in 100,000 Ukrainian refugees.

Putin was banking on NATO being split. NATO has never, never been more united than it is today. Putin is getting exactly the opposite what he intended to have as a consequence of going into Ukraine. The single-most important thing is for…

The State Department formally accused Vladimir Putin`s military of committing war crimes in Ukraine, citing the indiscriminate targeting of civilians, and civilian infrastructure.

We would respond if he uses it. The nature of the response would depend on the nature of the use.