Robert Menendez actually said...

"I support the administration's diplomatic efforts. I have always supported a two-track policy of diplomacy and sanctions."

"If you do try and cheat, and every time you do cheat, we are going to lower the economic hammer on you."

"I think we have to plan for the deal not working or the negotiations to fail."

"I think that if that is the case, that now they are going to challenge that assertion, it seems to me to call for not just voluntary efforts but to create a standard and consequences of that standard ..."