"Russia is a horrible representative of the international community and where the international community stands in 2023 and 2024."
"Speaker Mike Johnson is correct: Putin will not stop in Ukraine and threatens, really, the security of all of Europe."
"Ukraine needs those assets now."
"It would be a cruel irony to deny Ukraine the lifesaving benefit of these assets by invoking precedents for Russia's sovereignty and property rights when Russia is blatantly violating Ukraine's basic ..."
"I am grateful to be an original co-sponsor of the REPO--R-E-P-O--Act, which would enable the president to confiscate Russian sovereign assets."
"I think what Russia is doing is a violation of international law and needs to be condemned at every opportunity possible."
"We are entering a new phase of strategic competition that is growing more fierce with each passing day."
"We need to get the money there as quickly as possible, and continue the war, and supply the Ukrainians with the military that they need to win this war."
"Neither the free world nor Ukraine can afford further delays."
"War criminal Putin has committed murderous atrocities against Ukrainians, including torture, systematic rape, and indiscriminate bombing of civilians."
"If Russia refuses to honor its moral and legal obligations to compensate Ukraine to help them rebuild, other countries can--and should--seize Russia's sovereign assets and transfer them to Ukraine."