Robert Menendez actually said...

"Our futures are inextricably bound together as two nations, as people that have a very common heritage."

"The authoritarian, anti-democratic impulse is resurgent in the world."

"In recent months, Nicaragua's Ortega regime has arrested six presidential candidates and over a dozen prominent leaders from the private sector and civil society."

"If the United States is going to successfully diversify away from China, we need to continue to deepen our trading relationships with our neighbors in the western hemisphere."