Robert Menendez actually said...

"Unfreezing his assets doesn't seem to me a tactic or a policy that we want to pursue."

"I appreciate my friend Senator Corker's concerns. I wish some of those voices...had been raised about Iraq..."

"I don't understand the standard that we set. To me, it's more than a tactic. It sends a message that even if you have committed crimes they may be excused."

"Let me ask--and I'll open this to anyone on the panel--when does the citizen security threat become a national security threat?"