"I think we must be clear in naming the regime... a dictatorship, because that is what it is."
"There would be a lot of people who would be happy to see me leave the Senate."
"I think, clearly, it allowed the Maduro government, it gave it some breathing room."
"I get real concern when I see Cuba's influence in Venezuela."
"I have been intimately involved and paying close attention to Venezuela for some time."
"President Trump inherited a campaign that has made some significant gains to oust ISIS from its strongholds."
"I hope that sometime soon the administration will nominate individuals that the committee can consider."
"We have yet to see anyone nominated for critical positions at the State Department."
"A decade, a decade of democratic recession, what do you attribute that to?"
"We have to use the leverage that we have consistently to try to encourage openings in situations."
"why we have to support new democracies to help them sustain--build and sustain democratic institutions."