"A vote to authorize a President to send American men and women into battle is as serious and sobering a vote as any vote cast by a Member of Congress."
"We do not want to give the President a blank check and take away any of our authority."
"I think it would be a mistake strategically to excessively rely on U.S. military force to try and solve this problem."
"You know, I believe strongly that we are making a serious strategic mistake in not dealing with radical Islam..."
"What Mr. Putin is trying to do is fundamentally alter the post-World War II construct in terms of how the world is organized."
"The bottom line is Russia is now attempting to set up again a bi-polar world."
"Confronting that threat is the number one biggest issue, and it is not easy to confront."
"Now we realize that our presence in Europe is more important than it used to be."
"The big concern with Russia is what would they do next."
"Part of the--you know, reason for the chairman and I, you know, doing the bill that we did to give Ukraine greater position to defend themselves is to sort of up the military cost."
"I see no reason to for a second believe that they will be upheld."
"I think we can pretty much count on it not being upheld, so we should start planning."