Robert Menendez actually said...

"You stop the money; the regime gets the message."

"How do we explain greater repression, unimaginable that it could be more repressive, but nonetheless that's the reality."

"Do you think helping a regime that is oppressive of its people; that violates every principle that not only we, as Americans, have, but the International Charter has; that doubling--doubling--its rese..."

"Meantime, repression has spiked. Political arrests have more than doubled in the last year."