“No one here is claiming Vladimir Putin is going to get the Nobel Peace Prize this year, or whether he should be The Man of the Year of the Humanitarian Association. What we’re arguing here is, he has a very large country on full war footing — they’re cranking out weapons now at a war-footing pace — and we need to figure out — is there a way to get them to stop the war? And the only way you’re going to do that is to get Russians engaged in negotiations — something the Europeans haven’t be able to do; the Biden administration wasn’t able to do or didn’t even try.”

– Secretary of State Marco Rubio