Robert Menendez actually said...

"If we want to help governments stop transnational crime and narcotics trafficking, you have to give poor growers who have to sustain their families, alternative crops so that they are not growing coca..."

"If I do not want to see undocumented immigration in this country, there are push factors--people leave their countries for only two reasons: civil unrest or dire economic circumstances."

"It certainly does not make public policy sense to me."

"I just do not get it, and that is why we create a void in which people like Chavez when he was alive ultimately filled the void."