"I personally believe that we need to consider lethal defensive weapons for Ukraine."
"the world order that existed for, you know, a long time post World War II is stressed and requires some changes."
"We need changes, we need a new strategy, we need a new idea of how to approach this."
"It is politically difficult for the administration given what they campaigned on; but I don't see any way around it."
"More revenue is certainly an option, and I understand campaign promises, but all of the campaign promises... don't add up."
"I think it is, you know, without question true at this point that the world order that existed for, you know, a long time post World War II is stressed and requires some changes."
"All of the campaign promises that the administration made, they don't add up, so something has got to give."
"It is perfectly okay to push our allies that they need to contribute more."
"I appreciate the focus on our nuclear weapons deterrent for this week. I think it is incredibly important."
"We absolutely have to have a nuclear deterrent because, unfortunately, there other countries--and hostile countries like Russia, North Korea--that have nuclear weapons."
"We have to have enough of a deterrent to make sure that they never use them because they know that it would lead to their own destruction because of the size of our deterrent."
"I hope that as we go forward and try to figure out what the new nuclear deterrent needs to look like we don't imagine that we have to have absolutely everything."