Robert Menendez actually said...

"I think I did test the proposition with the administration, because I actually said at one point, so you want the sanctions to lapse?"

"Iran has a history here of deceit, deception, delay that has brought us to this point."

"I do not buy the proposition that war is necessarily automatic."

"My worst-case scenario is that, as you have described, a much stronger Iran, a much more economically resilient Iran."