• "Russia is a threat to the peace and stability of the region. Their actions in Georgia were unacceptable."
• "Now, we also can't return to a Cold War posture with respect to Russia."
• "Russia is in part resurgent and Putin is feeling powerful because of petro-dollars."
• "Russia has now become a nation fueled by petro-dollars that is basically a KGB apparatchik-run government."
• "The Russians ought to understand that we will support -- we, the United States -- will support the inclusion of Georgia and Ukraine in the natural process, inclusion into NATO."