Jeff Merkley actually said...

"I think it is an essential part of our foreign policy."

"So the conversation about the barriers in the Japanese economy has gone on for decades. We push; they resist."

"In Iran, we know about their grotesque human rights record."

"The question is, should we be in or out? A thousand companies have weighed in with the State Department to say we should be in, including oil companies ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips."