Robert Gates: “I will strongly recommend that the President veto such legislation.”

Putin feels that he has a destiny to recreate the Russian Empire.

He wants Ukraine, basically, to be a client state of Russia.

I think the president is — based on what I read — is getting the sense that, as he put it, that Putin is 'tapping' him along.

We want everything that's possible, and a lot of things that aren't possible, in a new system.