Bob Menendez Quotes

No matter how you slice it, limiting the SALT deduction forces New Jersey families to spend even more to subsidize Americans in less economically productive states, which take more than they ever give back to the federal government.

Fidel’s oppressive legacy will haunt the Cuban regime and our hemisphere forever.

Since the end of the Cold War, peace, prosperity, and progress have largely been the order of the day for hundreds of millions of people in the Americas, but not for the people of Cuba.

You don’t go hunting for a deer and shoot 50 rounds.

I was the first in my family to go to college.

The road to some of the darkest moments of history have been paved with the rants of petty demagogues against ethnic minorities for centuries.

This is the United States of America. It means we respond to our fellow Americans in times of crisis and emergency and disaster.

Secondly, security. Both the challenges we face in the world and the responsibilities that our country has in protecting our people, are major issues. We need to do more in the context of domestic security.

There is one source of injustice in Cuba: The Castro regime. It is not United States policies and it is not the United States embargo.

There’s a difference between a free market and free-for-all market.

I have devoted my life to serving the people of New Jersey and am forever thankful for all who have stood by me.

It may not necessarily be the way I would like to see it happen, but the reality is we could still bring millions of people out of the darkness into the light.

Theres a difference between, as I always say, the destination, the end point, and the journey. The journey has a lot of twists and turns. It isnt always pretty.

We are a nation of immigrants – all of us.

While we may be of different faiths, we have a strong sense of faith, family, community. We hold the values of freedom and human rights very high and I think that those are all a part of a very strong quilt that binds us together.

We need to have a strong economy that can create employment opportunities and that can also produce the revenue that we need to defend our country at home and abroad.

No matter the challenges ahead, I will never stop fighting for New Jersey and the values we share.

The answer dictates what the policy should be in our relationships with every country in the world.

Our challenge in this regard will be to broaden the scope of our federal funds in terms of international diplomacy, development aid, and international assistance. Many Latinos in the United States look at Latin America and see trouble brewing.

At a time of record energy prices, when we are trying to break the very addiction the president talked about in his speech, it does not make any sense to cut funding for energy efficiency programs and research.

I don’t believe you need high capacity magazines to go hunt. If you have to use 100 rounds to shoot a deer, you’re in trouble.

The principles of fairness and equality for working men and women are deeply interwoven within the fabric of our nation’s history.

I want to have a good vote in the Senate so we send the message that the Republicans and the Democrats are together in favor of immigration reform.

There isn’t any air power in the world that can take care of the problem of sectarian divisions.

There’s a difference between, as I always say, the destination, the end point, and the journey. The journey has a lot of twists and turns. It isn’t always pretty.

The United States’ flag should only fly in Cuba when the island is free, when dissent is embraced, and when democracy is restored.

My first priority is growing this economy in the long term, and stimulating it in the short term.

There are many domestic issues that give us a lot of common ground to work on. Health, education and immigration are among the areas where we share mutual goals and aspirations. There are also many values that we share as a communities.

You can have a Second Amendment right, but not a Second Amendment right to an AR-15.

I don’t believe that, with the click of a mouse, you should be able to buy unlimited amounts of ammunition.

We need strong public health institutions to respond to any challenge. We need to deal with critical infrastructure. The reality is that very little money has flowed to communities to help our first responders; to help our hospitals; to help the public health infrastructure.