Robert Menendez actually said...

"I have consistently raised the concern, and certainly the position for which you are nominated for would be important in making this concern less of a concern, and that is the funding decreases for La..."

"You stop the money; the regime gets the message."

"How do we explain greater repression, unimaginable that it could be more repressive, but nonetheless that's the reality."

"Do you think helping a regime that is oppressive of its people; that violates every principle that not only we, as Americans, have, but the International Charter has; that doubling--doubling--its rese..."