"I think this administration's withdrawal from America's traditional leadership role has left a power vacuum around the globe."
"When Russian soldiers start coming home in body bags, I think that his calculation will be different."
"I disagree with the administration's lack of providing weapons to the people of Ukraine."
"You and I have long shared deep concerns about Russia's aggression under Vladimir Putin."
"I think it was a strategic blunder that NATO did not admit Ukraine--and Georgia, by the way--in 2008."
"If we want NATO to continue to be successful and not just worthless, it seems to me Ukraine is where we make our stand."
"I just think that we have the most pro-Western government in Ukraine that we could possibly have, and God forbid that government falls."
"Putin continues to hone in on Nagorno-Karabakh, an area that we don't talk about that much anymore."
"The world, unfortunately, to a considerable degree, has accepted this as a fait accompli."
"Boy, it would come as news to the Baltic republics that the Russians are peace-loving people who are just buzzing our ships in the Black Sea because we are too close to their littoral."
"I worry about that. History, in the last 200 years of this republic, is strewn with people who made that miscalculation, pushed us too far."