Joseph Biden actually said...

"So, today, I`m announcing the first tranche of sanctions to impose costs on Russia in response to their actions yesterday. These have been closely coordinated with our Allies and partners, and we`ll c..."

"Defending freedom will have costs for us as well, here at home. We need to be honest about that. But as we will do -- but as we do this, I`m going to take robust action and make sure the pain of our s..."

"Who in the lord`s name does Putin think gives him the right to declare new so-called countries on territory that belonged to his neighbors?"

"We are implementing full blocking sanctions on two large Russian financial institutions VTB, and their military bank. We are implementing comprehensive sanctions on Russian sovereign debt."