Ben Cardin: “Throughout my career, I have been engaged in promoting human rights.”

If we are going to carry this as a value on the international stage, that the United States stands up for human rights and certain values and the rule of law, is it not important that we be willing to apply these sanctions to accomplish…

There is no reason why somebody should be sanctioned in America and not in Europe or not in the U.K.

We imposed sanctions on the individual.

If Putin hates this so much, we're sure that there are a lot of other dictators who would hate this as well.