Political Quotes

“The oligarchs working with and for Vladimir Putin have stolen almost all of the wealth of Russia. These are extremely wealthy individuals. If you can afford a $500 million yacht, you have got money to burn. And that is not your only asset--that is just your yacht. And you have got all the other stuff, the villas and the mansions and the artworks and the jets and all of that. The number is obviously in the tens of billions of dollars. When you consider that we are appropriating $40 billion, I think it is a fair bet that we can do half again, just from these oligarchs. And to have that money go to Ukraine's relief, to its victory, and to its rebuilding would be a very, very good use. And at the same time, it would provide the strategic feature that it would start turning these greedy oligarchs against Putin because we are going to keep coming after them until this is over, and it would disable his apparatus of control over Russia, which is run through being basically a gang of thieves who all allow each other to loot their country. I am reminded of Senator Graham's great friend, Senator McCain, who used to describe Russia as a gas station run by gangsters with an army. Well, this turns the gangsters against each other, in addition to taking ill-gotten gains and turning them to a valuable and proper use.…”