"We cannot provide a blank check to this and a future President because everything that is envisioned goes beyond this President."
"I think we share that goal with Turkey, but I have not had in my conversations with the Turks the requirement that we take concerted action against Bashar al-Assad as the precondition necessarily for ..."
"Although this hearing is not focused on the administration's proposed authorization for the use of military force against ISIL, it is by nature an opportunity to probe the dynamics of our current anti..."
"I have an intelligence briefing on Iran, but I wanted to come to join the committee and its leadership in welcoming the most outstanding U.S. Senator New Jersey has ever had to represent it."
"The worst possible outcome the world, the United States, and Israel face is a nuclear Iran."
"I know that we have heard many times before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee when I was a member and when I chaired it, and even most recently, that, in fact, the world will come to an end, do n..."
"Even the President conceded in the 2014 State of the Union that sanctions laws passed by the U.S. Congress with bipartisan veto-proof majorities forced Iran back to the negotiating table."
"Iran can cheat, but we do not worry about that in the context of unsettling the Joint Plan of Action because technically it is not within it."
"I believe the only way Iran will voluntarily stop their march to nuclear weapons is if they know tougher and tougher sanctions will be enacted."
"But such a peaceful resolution to Iran's nuclear program will not be possible if we do not allow the negotiations to proceed to conclusion."
"I have long supported sanctions on Iran, and the benefit of hindsight has only reaffirmed my commitment to these sanctions."