Robert Menendez actually said...

"It is my sincere honor to introduce Cecilia Rouse as President-elect Obama's nominee for the Presidential Council of Economic Advisors."

"I hope you will come, after you're the Interior Secretary, with me to the Statue of Liberty, help me break the shackles on the crown."

"She will not only be the first African American Environmental Protection Agency Administrator, I believe she will be the best Environmental Protection Agency Administrator we have seen in the history ..."

"I am confident that the Committee and the full Senate will see that she is eminently qualified for the position and will confirm her for this important post."