We do need friends and allies around the globe. We need to be a leader in developing a rules-based global trading system.

I come to a very fearful conclusion that the President of Russia owns the President of the United States.

With respect to the stuff you are talking about on trade, yes, we're worried about retaliation, and, yes, we don't want to go it alone.

America First does not mean America alone.

What troubles me, perhaps, more than anything today, is this love affair that our President seems to have with Vladimir Putin.

By isolating us and by demonizing many of our friends and allies... makes our trade agenda that much more complicated.

I couldn't think of Vladimir Putin having a better straw man occupying the Oval Office.

I think the whole approach to that was ill-considered. It was chaotic. It was confusing.

Some of the recommendations are kind of commonsense principles that do apply across the board.

I think that we have to embrace this as a chronic condition.

I haven't met anyone yet who thinks we are going to be able to deal with this through the criminal justice system.