Ben Cardin: “I think it is very important that we have a very strong position--a carrot-stick approach--that we are not going to give…”

I introduced the Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act as a way of saying that we will hold abusers accountable even if their own country does not.

You have found the Achilles hill of the Putin regime. They rape, torture and kill with impunity and keep their ill-gotten gains in the West.

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

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