"A secret agency is an anomaly in a democracy."
"Are you willing to say no to the Director of the CIA, and the President of the United States?"
"This isn't like the Department of Agriculture or the Department of Commerce... We're it."
"I am a cosponsor of a piece of legislation introduced by Senator Angus King of Maine, the Preventive Home Visit Act."
"the Ukrainians have to be very careful to not get trapped obviously."
"One of Putin's strategic goals is a land bridge, from Russia along the Black Sea to Crimea."
"the danger is that Putin returns to his normal modus operandi of just hammering civilians and cities like he did in Aleppo with Assad and Graziani and Chechnya."
"it's really dangerous, and I think it's clearly the case, either he got bad intelligence and has been getting bad intelligence all the way along or he got good intelligence and didn't listen to it."
"I've always thought that we classify too much and that we really blunt the impact that we could have on international relations by not sharing, as long as we don't compromise sources and methods."
"The Russians have a much lower threshold, for using nuclear weapons, than anybody else, in the world that I know of."
"It's cynical, outrageous, and it shows the depravity of this guy that he calls this a humanitarian corridor, leading people into the arms of their enemy."