Bob Menendez

I think you are going to be a significant and positive force at the United Nations.

Investment in promoting economic growth and strengthening the rule of law are insurance against violent extremism.

As we rebalance to Asia, we must emphasize how critical the universal values of human rights and good governance are for security and prosperity.

America's economic and national security interests are inextricably tied to East Asia's strength, stability, and security.

We have the will of the people. They want to work with us.

The Maghreb and Sahel regions are of increasing strategic significance for the United States.

I just do not get it, and that is why we create a void in which people like Chavez when he was alive ultimately filled the void.

It certainly does not make public policy sense to me.

If I do not want to see undocumented immigration in this country, there are push factors--people leave their countries for only two reasons: civil unrest or dire economic circumstances.

If we want to help governments stop transnational crime and narcotics trafficking, you have to give poor growers who have to sustain their families, alternative crops so that they are not growing coca at the end of the day.

We had 6,000 arrests and detentions last year. We had the Ladies in White... get attacked brutally every week.

The benefits of such investments far outweigh the costs

I understand that the United States has been the largest provider of humanitarian aid to Syria and I commend the administration on all it has done on this front.

We are all committed to strong American leadership, and the need has never been greater.

It underscores the importance of service to this nation and to people around the world who look to us for leadership.

Our policy focus is not only on budgetary items, but also on taking action to demonstrate U.S. leadership.

Her life was a tribute to all of those dedicated to something bigger than themselves, and it underscores the importance of service to this Nation and to people around the world who look to us for leadership.

Is it not further true that under the Affordable Care Act, that with the donut-hole rebates and other cost-containment provisions, that beneficiaries have not only saved about $6 billion in drug costs since the law was signed, but that…

I am a little dismayed at some of the so-called savings that are identified in the Medicare program.

So how do we ensure that the research and development that makes us the leader in the world and that makes us globally competitive, and, maybe even more important than that, creates life-saving, life-enhancing drugs, does not get…

I have long held that real long-term savings can and should be found by encouraging the efficient delivery of health care.

I think that is where some of the structural reforms can and should be made.

Cutting in this particular field, while I understand the challenges and the trade-offs, is just undermining the very essence of some of the goals that we intended under the Affordable Care Act.

At the end of the day, those who were harmed should have the appropriate relief.

I am somewhat troubled by that idea, because that has not been a particularly good record by some of these institutions.