Robert Menendez actually said...

"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."

"I am confident that the committee--and the full Senate--will conclude that he is exceptionally well-qualified to serve in this important position with great distinction."

"If we are to have any meaning to never again being something of import, then we must do more than just simply stand by the sidelines."

"I want to applaud your stand that you have taken concerning genocide in the Darfur region of the Sudan."