Bob Menendez

I just want to recognize that the U.N. just passed the toughest sanctions against North Korea in 20 years.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Maybe we can have Mrs. McCain be an honorary senior staff member of the committee so she can sit in on these discussions.

So, it needs to be consistently on the agenda.

I cannot imagine why we would not begin to include slavery as one of those conditionalities that we really think about.

It is simply unconscionable that we would allow slave-made goods into the United States of America.

I appreciate Senator Cardin working to make sure that the TIP Report...needs to be inviolate.

I am concerned when I see Malaysia, for example, that there is no way that anybody is going to convince me that they deserve to be upgraded.

We are not going to sacrifice our principles on trafficking.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you to our panelists. I got to read your testimony when I was sitting in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee with Secretary Kerry.

My focus was not about the implementation of the JCPOA. It is about Iran's malign activities within the region that----

I did not really ask you for comments on Cuba, which I appreciate. I just want to let you know, for the record, how I felt.

Should Iran, who violated international norm and international law, ultimately be the entity to pay, since they are now flush with money that we have given them or returned to them?

I think they do good work, but let me just say that some of the preliminary findings cause concern for me about what the IAEA is capable of.

I have a sense we are creating a permissive environment.

I never heard about that at all. And it was done so quickly, and the payment was made so rapidly.

I think that human rights and democracy in Cuba is incredibly important.

When we do business with the Castro regime, which is what we are doing--we are not doing business with the Cuban people.

If anything, we are going backwards here.

Human rights and democracy are never about the past. They are eternal, from my perspective.

While I may have disagreements at times on policy, I never doubt your commitment to America's virtues and promoting those virtues abroad.

In the past year, we reached a historic multilateral accord with Iran that you all played a critical role in.

I would not switch places with the foreign minister of any country, and nor do I yearn to retreat to some illusionary golden age of the past.

We are confronted today by perils that are as old as nationalist aggression and as new as cyber warfare...

I am just convinced more and more after these last years... is the minimum price of the leadership role that the United States of America plays on a global basis.

This budget carries out our commitments.