I do not think there is any doubt on the minds of anybody on this committee, nor probably on this panel, for that matter, what is going to happen next there, or at least what Russia is going to attempt to do.

We will not accept any unilateral decision to deploy unsanctioned Russian peacekeepers to eastern or southern Ukraine.

I can surely expect that on May 11, the pro-Russian elements will win that referendum fraudulently because they control all of this.

If I sent this tweet in Cuba, I would be put in jail.

Cuba, according to Freedom House, is the second most repressive government in the world, only after Iran.

The USAID is not a charity. Right? It is a U.S. agency that promotes humanitarian and development aid around the world but, as part of it, also furthering U.S. interests around the world.

The clearly stated goals of that program... is to break the information blockade in Cuba and to promote information-sharing.

This program was completely within the stated mandate, within the stated purpose of your programs in Cuba.

This was not an intelligence program. We were not spying on the Cuban Government using this program.

I think it's incumbent upon us in public office who hold these positions and have these forums to make people aware of what we are actually working on.

We engaged the Russian Federation after the collapse of the Soviet Union, not to do them a favor, but to do us a favor.