"I do not think it is to disrupt American business. I think it is to disrupt the economies of those countries."
"Sanctions are one of the most effective diplomatic tools in our arsenal, one we rely on to avoid putting American lives at risk by engaging in traditional kinetic warfare."
"I know you were not lobbying for the sanctions."
"So there was lobbying here."
"I appreciate that. I would just say that in the public forum that you could read or any other citizen could read, it is pretty definitive by all of the intelligence agencies of what they did."
"I would hope you would do so, and I would be willing to hear your response for the record, because I think it is important."
"That's pretty amazing. You have built a career on ExxonMobil that you said afforded you the opportunity to engage regularly with world leaders, including Vladimir Putin in Russia."
"do you believe that additional sanctions on Russia, in view of everything that has been ascertained, is, in fact, appropriate?"
"This would be a pretty big undertaking to try to circumvent U.S. sanctions by using what may or may not, I am not ready to make that determination, a legal loophole to do so."
"It is a little difficult to think you actually do not know that Exxon was lobbying on these issues of sanctions."
"You do not need a lobbying disclosure form to simply seek information and clarification about a bill."