Robert Menendez actually said...

"the Maduro government would clearly love to turn their domestic crisis into a bilateral one, and we should not be sucked into that dynamic"

"I deeply believe that the United States cannot and should not be a main protagonist of what is going on there."

"How many more people have to be tortured? How many more have to be arrested? How many more have to be fired upon before we say, well, guess what, the process is not working?"

"we have to condemn those arrests in the strongest possible terms. Those were peaceful protests."