Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) on Sunday said that President Obama needs to take a stronger stance on Ukraine and in dealing with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

"Now that the Olympics are over, we need to watch the behavior of the Russians," she said on "Fox News Sunday." "And I believe the President needs to up his game and send a clear, unequivocal, public message to Putin not to interfere in what is happening in Ukraine and let the Ukrainian people determine their future."

Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) on Thursday called for sanctions on Ukraine and said the Obama administration is too weak when dealing with Russia.

"This is the most naive president in history," he said on Phoenix radio station KFYI, according to Politico. "The naiveté of Barack Obama and John Kerry is stunning."

Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX) on Thursday reminded Americans who wrote the Constitution.

"I think we got off that track when we allowed our government to become a secular government, when we stopped realizing that God created this nation, that He wrote the constitution, that's based on biblical principles," DeLay said when asked when people stopped doing good for others in the name of God on "The Difference," a talk show on Global Evangelical Television.

Alabama State Rep. James Buskey (D) on Thursday got a little confused about Islam, referring to it as "Muslimism."

The Democrat made the remark during debate on a bill that would let public schools and state buildings display the Ten Commandments, according to the Birmingham News.

New York state Sen. Greg Ball (R) reportedly plagiarized from a 17-year-old high school student in Chicago and from the Los Angeles Times in a bill he introduced that would keep the state from housing killer whales in aquariums, according to the Times Union.

Ball lifted a paragraph from a blog post Donald Rapier wrote for the Huffington Post about "Blackfish," a CNN documentary about a killer whale at SeaWorld that killed an employee in 2010. Here's Rapier's paragraph that Ball's bill uses, though there is a typo in the bill:

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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) on Thursday joked about his weight loss at a town hall in Port Monmouth, N.J.

"Rome was not unbuilt in a day, either," he told a middle schooler recently when she asked when he would lose more weight.

A New Orleans police officer accidentally fired his gun while pistol-whipping a man after his taser failed to subdue him, police told the Times-Picayune Wednesday.

Lt. Kevin Imbraguglio used his gun because he "feared for his safety," police told the Times-Picayune. No one was hit by the bullet.

President Obama on Wednesday commended Gap for its decision to raise the minimum wage for its U.S. employees to $9 per hour in 2014 and $10 per hour in 2015.

"Today, I applaud Gap, Inc. for announcing that they intend to raise wages for their employees beginning this year – a decision that will benefit about 65,000 workers in the U.S.," he said in a statement.

George W. Bush doesn't really miss much from his time as president except for the first class travel.

"A lot of people ask me, you know, do I miss much about being president," he said at a Wednesday event at the George W. Bush Institute, as recorded by Politico. "The answer's really no. I mean I miss the people I served with. I miss Air Force One. In eight years, they never lost my baggage."

Nine gay couples on Wednesday sued the state of Colorado for the right to marry and for recognition of same-sex marriage licenses issued out of state, Buzzfeed reported.

The couples sued two Democrats -- Gov. John Hickenlooper Jr. and Debra Johnson, the Denver city and county clerk and recorder.