Robert Menendez Quotes

• We wouldn’t turn over our customs service or our border patrol to a foreign government. We shouldn’t turn over the ports of the United States, either.

  Robert Menendez

  Topics in Service

  Tags in Government

• I am still doing my due diligence. A vote on a Supreme Court nominee is a lifetime appointment and when the court decides, it is the law of the land.

  Robert Menendez

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Law

• By failing to keep their end of the bargain, the Bush administration would allow New Jersey projects to deteriorate and make New Jersey highways and bridges less safe.

  Robert Menendez

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in New, Keep

• 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.

  Robert Menendez

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Strong, Home, Need

• 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.

  Robert Menendez

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Need

• 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.

  Robert Menendez

  Topics in Health, Money

  Tags in Strong

• We should seek international support for our mutual objectives abroad, in promoting freedom, democracy, respect for human rights, and also the elimination of weapons of mass destruction.

  Robert Menendez

  Topics in Respect

  Tags in Freedom, Human

• We believe very passionately that an international approach is necessary to achieve some of these goals.

  Robert Menendez

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Believe, Achieve, Necessary

• There are plenty of opportunities for common grounds that we need to explore and strengthen. The Hispanic community has a strong affinity for our relationship with Israel.

  Robert Menendez

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Strong, Need, Common

• 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.

  Robert Menendez

  Topics in America, Challenge

  Tags in Look

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

  Robert Menendez

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Answer, Policy

• 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.

  Robert Menendez

  Topics in Family

  Tags in Freedom, Strong

• 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.

  Robert Menendez

  Topics in Education, Health

  Tags in Give

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

  Robert Menendez

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Long, Short

Robert Menendez (14)

Birth:	1st January, 1954
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Lawyer, Politician

About

Robert "Bob" Menendez is the junior United States Senator from New Jersey and a member of the Democratic Party. In January 2006, he was appointed to fill the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Jon Corzine. Menendez was elected to his own full six-year term in the 2006 U.S. Senate election.

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