"It's an honor to have the President of Ukraine with us... I think progress is being made... We had a good meeting, as you know, just a short while ago with the President of Russia — and I think there's a possibility that something could come out of it."

"If everything works out well today, we'll have a trilat — and I think there will be a reasonable chance of ending the war when we do that."

"People are being killed and we want to stop that... I know the President, I know myself, and I believe Vladimir Putin wants to see it ended."

"We're going to work with Ukraine, we're going to work with everybody, and we're going to make sure that if there's peace, that peace is going to stay long-term... We're not talking about a 2-year peace and then we end up in this mess again."

"We're going to be meeting with a great representative group — seven very powerful [people] ... and we're going to have some suggestions made. They want to see peace."

"You look fabulous in that suit!"

"I said the same thing!"

Yes of course we are ready.

FLOTUS [Melania Trump] felt very strongly. She's watched the same thing that you watch... She loves children, and she hates to see something like this happening... It was a very beautiful letter. It was very well-received by him."

"The level of hatred and animosity is incredible... in solving all of these wars, they don't even write about. I solved major wars. I solved wars that have been going on for [30+ years]."

"I don't think you need a ceasefire. If you look at the six deals that I settled this year, they were all at war. I didn't do any ceasefires ... I like the concept of a ceasefire for one reason: because you'd stop killing people immediately."

"I love the Ukrainian people, but I love all people. I love the Russian people. I love 'em all. I want to get the war stopped."

“He went through hell.”