So successful bordering countries threaten his power, threaten his control.

If we try to make a success of Ukraine that is an existential threat to Putin.

Vladimir Putin is playing the West like a violin because we refuse to acknowledge reality.

What has this administration specifically done to help Ukraine militarily as they are trying to grapple with their security situation?

This is not long-term in Russia's best interest, but it is in the best interest of Vladimir Putin.

We take the corruption very seriously, not only as a matter of economics or of moral principle, but as a matter of national security.

the political message it would send to Vladimir Putin is incalculable.

The majority of Europeans hope the United States will continue to see the issue of energy security of its allies as one of its top strategic priorities.

I have heard arguments on both sides, that if we actually export more that would lead toward greater exploration.

I think our sense of the countries we visited was they have probably made the most progress in terms of limiting corruption.

I do not believe Putin is acting rationally from the standpoint of improving his economy.

They are not a friendly rival. They are an adversary.

In terms of the effect it might have on Vladimir Putin's calculation, even though it would not come on stream immediately.

So you basically would be disagreeing with what Senator Markey talks about in terms of dramatically increasing the price of gas if we were to export more?

I think we were both concerned that we do not have an ambassador for Romania.

I was always in support of strong sanctions, hopefully targeted ones that were really painful to Putin, not to us.

We have not begun to exploit them.

It is true that people talk often about Europe's dependency on Russian gas.

I know I am out of time, but just let me follow up on this.

Those platforms exist, those competitors--the marketplace, the free market competitive system have already provided that investing model with that level of transparency.

the best way to ensure confidence and to ensure best price, is through maximum competition and transparency in the marketplace.

What is happening in terms of trading is highly complex.

But I always have been able to trade.

I have made a decision that this company is worth $20 a share.

So when you are talking about 25 percent of trades not being executed--is that in all the institutional, the very high volume, or is that really individuals like myself that say--I want to buy that hundred shares of stock, I will pay any…