Robert Menendez actually said...

"Ultimately we will not succeed in fully destroying Daesh until we resolve the civil war in Syria, which remains a powerful magnet for foreign terrorist organizations."

"I do not get a sense that there is one, and that worries me."

"I think we had a lot of missed opportunities when this committee passed not unanimously but a strong bipartisan vote to train and to assist the vetted Syrian rebels."

"What leverage do we really have? What are we doing here to Russia to change its calculation?"