Robert Menendez actually said...

"new sanctions at this time are unnecessary and, far from enhancing the prospects for negotiations, risk fatally undermining our diplomacy"

"We sometimes have a tendency to see Iran as a monolith, a country devoid of politics. In fact, the politics are intense."

"For years, Congress has played a significant role in authorizing nuclear sanctions on Iran, and I am proud to have taken the lead role in what has been a bipartisan effort to pass a series of sanction..."

"The days are over when the American people are going to say, 'Hey, they can just go negotiate this thing, we will take their word for it.'"