Bob Menendez

It is because the questions are too important, I am not going to synthesize them.

Sanctions is a tool of peaceful diplomacy.

Sanctions by the United States do not work if they are alone; they have to be multilateral.

Sanctions do not always start off with a multilateral unity at the beginning.

I think we have developed an effective way to touch all of our databases and resources to figure out what we know about these individuals.

I hope you will look at that because, particularly at the U.N., the question of refugees, whether they be Syrian or not, is particularly of global concern.

Do you believe that as part of that rules-based structure, the inviolability of borders and territorial sovereignty is an essential part of that?

U.S. leadership is essential in the world, essential for the advancement of humanitarian goals, advancement of America's national interests.

Do you believe it is in the national interests and security of the United States to continue to preserve and promote the international rules-based order that we created after World War II?

What kind of signal does this send to whistle-blowers, to leakers, and in the middle of the environment we're in right now, where we have a Senate Intelligence Committee investigation of the Russian hacking?

I appreciate and love Senator Shelby, but I am not going to follow his precedent.

Do you believe that additional sanctions on Russia, in view of everything that has been ascertained, is, in fact, appropriate?

This would be a pretty big undertaking to try to circumvent U.S. sanctions by using what may or may not, I am not ready to make that determination, a legal loophole to do so.

I think it is rewarding a regime when the only way you can do business in Cuba is with Castro's son or son-in-law.

Do you think that as a condition of establishing diplomatic relations with Cuba, we, at a minimum, should have insisted on the return of fugitives, cop killers like New Jersey cop killer Joanne Chesimard and other American fugitives of…

And so that does not help your job as the Secretary of State, does it, if you are to achieve nomination?

Do you think Mexicans are criminals, drug dealers, and rapists?

Another promise he cannot keep.

Now the President-elect says the American people will pay for it and then that the Mexicans will reimburse us.

Let me turn to Mexico, a little different part of the world than we have been discussing. Some of us care about the Western Hemisphere.

Could you imagine being in a position in which you would have your company and its shareholders pay money to lobby for sanctions that would affect your bottom line?

It is a little difficult to think you actually do not know that Exxon was lobbying on these issues of sanctions.

Sanctions are one of the most effective diplomatic tools in our arsenal, one we rely on to avoid putting American lives at risk by engaging in traditional kinetic warfare.

That's pretty amazing. You have built a career on ExxonMobil that you said afforded you the opportunity to engage regularly with world leaders, including Vladimir Putin in Russia.

It is incredibly important.