Robert Menendez actually said...

"Well, with my thanks to Sara Marta Fonseca, Jorge Luis Perez ``Antunez'' and Jose Daniel Ferrer Garcia for coming under very difficult circumstances and for once again exhibiting your courage and risk..."

"So what happens when you--so those are the people who take the information of repression inside of Cuba and tell the rest of the world. What is crossing the line?"

"But you have created regulations that permit abuses to take place rather widely."

"But everything that we can do would include sending the regime a message that you can't keep an American in prison and then have all your people parade over here. To me, that is an oxymoron."