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"

"The United States will not stand by an idly watch as the rights of people, with whom we share this hemisphere, are systematically violated by an anti-American government."

"More should be done to make it apparent to the rest of the world that Venezuela today just impersonates a democracy and is not a democracy."

"Russia can still step back from supporting separatism and violence and do the right thing."