Robert Menendez actually said...

"the United States is alarmed by the ongoing crackdown on lawyers, religious adherents, civil society leaders, and by growing attempts to restrict internationally recognized freedoms, including the fre..."

"It seems to me that instruments of national power--diplomacy, economic, intelligence, and military--are only useful when they are fully deployed."

"Some would call that an act of war."

"I see much of the United States political and economic future depending on the Asia-Pacific."