Robert Menendez actually said...

"It seems to me that the United States needs strategic focus, not strategic patience."

"But from my perspective, hope is not a national security strategy."

"I think our European allies, Germany and France, are working very hard, but I think that the United States should be engaged there as well."

"Putin's vision and his long-term goals and intentions, I think, have been very clearly stated and had not changed."