"This is about the fight between, you know, authoritarianism and freedom and democracy."
"This is important because Ukraine is important. This is about the fight between authoritarianism and freedom and democracy."
"You don't fly, you know, a quarter across the world for a signing ceremony for a deal with the president of the United States, and turn it into a debate on American security guarantees."
"This is about the fight between authoritarianism and freedom and democracy. This is the Ronald Reagan evil empire against democracy."
"We need to stop the dying. … Let’s go forward with the peace negotiations, and then we’ll determine what security arrangements need to be made around the peace negotiations."
"The peace negotiations need to occur, and then we need to look at the- what are the construct of what security guarantees need to be."
"This is about the- the fight between, you know, authoritarianism and freedom and democracy."
"Instead of taking that win, he turned it into a debate on American security guarantees on the peace negotiations instead of taking that win and then from that going forward."
"Zelenskyy's behavior at the meeting was inappropriate."
"This is not okay. It is -- that conversation is not okay. And I think it's disappointing to the American public when they read the transcript."
"Absolutely."