We have been helping Ukraine for 25 years, and we will continue helping Ukraine, but it's clear that we don't know how to solve its problems. If we knew how to solve its problems, we would have made more progress than we're making. It's also clear that our aid programs, which have gone on now for 25 years—and I didn't know there were now proposals for that budget to be cut—are not going to change the direction of a nation of 40 million people.
On October 23rd, 2017. See this statement in context.