Ted Poe actually said...

"If you are our best friend, we are going to keep our thumb on you and control what we want."

"Putin is the center of all of this. He sees himself as the modern day Peter the Great."

"He is not really going to promote humanitarian goals in Eastern Ukraine, he is going over there to take back Ukraine and make it part of Russia."

"The U.S., West response has been weak, and it is shown because it hasn't stopped the aggression."