Political Quotes

“I want to thank Senator Shaheen for, actually, a long- term friendship and vision that she had back in 2018 when she came to me and wanted to reconstitute the Senate NATO Observer Group. It could not have been a better time for us to pay more attention to this very important alliance. But it is also, right now, today--4 days away from the 3-year anniversary of the invasion of Ukraine--very important to talk about the nature of Vladimir Putin and the tactics that they use to terrorize populations. President Putin, in October, prior to the invasion in February, said that he was sending troops to an area to do a training exercise. While we were getting intelligence that it looked like more than that, he was already lying to the world by saying: We are just going to train up our soldiers a little bit more. Then after the first part of the year going into January, he said: Well, we are doing the training exercise that just, coincidentally, happens to be along the Ukrainian border, but it is just a training exercise. And then he creates any number of pretext to then talk about how provocative Ukraine is operating a democracy within their borders. And he creates the pretext for a ``special military operation,'' invading Ukraine, trying to finish what he started when he invaded Crimea back in 2014. Vladimir Putin is a liar, a murderer, and responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians. And that is bad by itself.…”