Bob Menendez

One of the most important reforms in Dodd-Frank was requiring systemically significant firms to hold more capital and have better liquidity to prevent another crisis.

I marvel at people who 3 years after our financial crisis still do not have full regulation of the Wall Street derivatives and other key issues.

If we are going to promote regulations pursuant to the law but not to be able to enforce them, then it is a hollow promise to the American people

A cop on the beat without any bullets?

If my colleague will yield, I am sure the distinguished Senator from Illinois knows from his long political history that when you toss and turn, you know what is right. You don't toss and turn if you have a commitment and conviction of the…

It's almost like the question of, do you negotiate with terrorists?

I think Santos has decided that Colombia's insertion in Latin America... is more important to him right now than the relationship with the United States.

I think about the OAS as an institution that could and should play a more vital role. But it needs some reforms.

I think there's a crying clarion call for attention in the Western Hemisphere in our own national interest.

If in fact we care about growing our economy, then certainly having a more robust middle class in Latin America and the Caribbean, which has a propensity for U.S. goods and services, is in our economic interests.

When you leave and you care about something as much as I do about Latin America and our relationship...

I look at the enormous inequality, which is one of the underlying root causes of the challenge that we have in the hemisphere, and I say, well, we can't do that alone.

I returned from Cuba just a few weeks ago, stunned to see that the country is finally making some of the critical changes in its own society.

This is not a case of the United States versus Venezuela, but rather Venezuela versus democracy.

I mentioned in my opening statement that 17 of my colleagues joined with me in a letter to the Secretary, and it is our concern about HAMP.

I think history will record that you presided over some of the most tumultuous times in our financial system.

If you do not act in the next 2 to 3 weeks, we will have a global financial meltdown.

Well, it certainly would have been in the pattern, at least from the Libyan Government's actions up to and including that date, that they were not reticent to go ahead and use their economic power through their resource to oil to try to…

There is no political, economic or diplomatic will to force Kaddafi to give up Megrahi again.

So, it's fair to say that the Libyans have a modus operandi of using commercial rewards or recriminations in order to achieve their foreign policy goals.

Prostate cancer is a very treatable disease and Mr. Megrahi's cancer should have been treated IN JAIL IN SCOTLAND instead of letting him free to go back to his homeland.

Didn't the British accelerate their normalization with Libya at a much faster rate?

Finally, there are commercial connections of significance between the United Kingdom and Libya that goes beyond energy.

Isn't it also true that their negotiations allowed for a greater company share?

He wanted something more for what he gave up.