Robert Menendez actually said...

"And finally, does the State Department believe that the desire for an independent inquiry conducted by the British Government, as Prime Minister Cameron suggested when he was the opposition leader, is..."

"Well, seems to me that unless somebody reads the act in a different way--it was a foreign policy decision, after the compassionate release, to allow al-Megrahi to physically leave Scotland."

"Our resolute conviction remains that Megrahi should not be a free man and should be serving out the entirety of his sentence in a Scottish prison."

"I don't think it takes a rocket scientist to figure it out."