You can call it withholding or taking, legal or illegal -- call it whatever you like.

Some of his patterns come in legal and some come in illegal.

It's certainly possible that illegal (or legal) aliens are taking some Americans' jobs, but I am not sure those who are proposing these laws have a real handle on the magnitude of that as a problem. Frankly, I am not sure it is a significant problem. What we are aware of is that there are at least 12 million aliens working in this country and we know that today there aren't 12 million unemployed Americans waiting to replace them in those jobs if they leave the U.S. work force.

Having come across the undeniable fact of theft of our gas from the export pipe and in order to ensure energy security for Europe, we have decided to take all possible measures to ensure that Western consumers continue to receive gas in accordance with the contracts in effect.

We will restore full supplies to Europe by tomorrow evening, but you must understand the circumstances when Ukraine keeps stealing our gas and we continue to supply it cannot go on forever.

Arbitration is a last resort, but if Ukraine is ready to do this we are ready too.