Ben Cardin actually said...

"The Obama administration takes pride that they were able to get Europe to have consistent sanctions against Iran that the United States initially brought forward."

"At my urging, the U.S. Government ended all assistance to a national police force in one country due to our concerns about the use of extrajudicial killings."

"Our issue is with the Russian Government that has denied basic rights to its own citizens."

"Let me make this clear. We made it more complicated, basically, at the request of our international partners and the administration, so they had flexibility."