"we need to condemn their outrageous behavior in the war in Ukraine"
"This week Russia walked away from continuing negotiations around New START, and given Vladimir Putin's rhetoric that heightens the nuclear threat because of the war in Ukraine, can you talk about how ..."
"Serbia and the Western Balkans are one of the places where Russia still has a fair amount of influence and has the potential to disrupt stability and make things more difficult."
"A total collapse of Lebanon is not in the interest of any of the countries in the region or the United States."
"Thank you, Senator Portman. Again, I want to thank Ranking Member Johnson for sitting on this hearing with me."
"I know Ukraine, and for all that I really admire what they are doing, from an energy perspective, they have been most--one of the most energy inefficient countries in Europe."
"We have to be able to marry our political agenda, our policy goals with economics."
"Europe must work to end its dependence on Russian energy resources."
"Ending Europe's reliance on Russian energy must be a thoughtful process, one that is fully implemented to ensure loopholes and back doors are closed to Russian suppliers."
"So what we are trying to do is to see what can we--how can we work within the market forces to see if we can identify re-routing of gas to Europe on an urgent basis and reduce the demand itself."
"We are working on legislation right now to try and address some of the concerns in that region, and obviously energy is one of those big issues."