Senator Robert Menendez is an American politician and lawyer.Â
Senator Bob Menendez has served as a senior United States Senator from New Jersey since 2006. He was the chairman of the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations during his time at the United States Senate. He also served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1993 till 2006.
Former representative, United States Senator Member Bob Menendez was born in New York City on January 1, 1954.Â
He was born to a low-class family of Cuban immigrants. But, he grew up in Union City, where he attended the Union Hill High School. He enrolled at Saint Peter’s College and earned a B.A. degree in Political Science in 1976. He furthered and earned a J.D. in Rutgers Law School in 1979.
Menendez started his political career during his Bachelor’s degree program. He was elected to the Union City Board of Education from 1974 till 1978. After his J.D., he was admitted to the New Jersey Bar and started private legal practice in 1980.Â
In 1982, Menendez ran for the Mayor of Union City but was defeated by Musto.Â
In his second bid in 1986, he defeated Musto and became the Mayor till 1993. While serving as the Mayor, Menendez was elected to represent the state’s 33rd District in the New Jersey General Assembly. He served from 1987 till 1991.
In 1992, he contested for a seat in the United States House of Representatives after redistricting. He took office the following year and served till 2006.
In 2006, after Governor Jon Corzine, a former United States Senator, was elected as the governor of New Jersey, he appointed Menendez to fill the vacant seat. He won again in 2006, 2012, and 2018.
You can find out more about the senator here.
Here’s our collection of the best Bob Menendez Quotes:
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Bob Menendez Quotes on Economy/Policy/Bush
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.
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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.
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During the 2005 Bush tax holiday, corporations didn’t bring back the billions they stashed overseas to build new factories, increase wages, or create more jobs. The lion’s share of that windfall went to CEO raises and stock buybacks for investors on Wall Street.
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The answer dictates what the policy should be in our relationships with every country in the world.
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My first priority is growing this economy in the long term, and stimulating it in the short term.
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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.
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Bob Menendez Quotes on Justice/Democracy/Rights
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.
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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.
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The United States’ flag should only fly in Cuba when the island is free, when dissent is embraced, and when democracy is restored.
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No matter the challenges ahead, I will never stop fighting for New Jersey and the values we share.
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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.
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I will not ascribe to the ‘Blame America’ club for vicious abuses of human rights, systemic exploitation of Cuban labor, unrelenting repression, and stifling censorship.
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Bob Menendez Quotes on Health/Education/Society
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 community.
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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.
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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.
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Bob Menendez Quotes on Security/History/States
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.
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My mother made the courageous decision to flee a tyrannized Cuba in the 1950s and bring her children to the United States, where I was born.
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Don’t blame America for the thousands of Cubans who have been arrested, detained, and imprisoned by Castro for peacefully protesting the regime.
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The principles of fairness and equality for working men and women are deeply interwoven within the fabric of our nation’s history.
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Don’t blame America for the thousands of Cubans who have been arrested, detained, and imprisoned by Castro for peacefully protesting the regime.
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No matter the challenges ahead, I will never stop fighting for New Jersey and the values we share.
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Ultimately, the NRA has maybe five million members. We are a nation of 320 million-plus, and it’s time we call out those who stand on the wrong side of history and spout the same old NRA talking points.
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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.
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This is the United States of America. It means we respond to our fellow Americans in times of crisis and emergency and disaster.
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Bob Menendez Quotes on Politics/Power/Constitution
Tyrants and dictators have incited hatred against ethnic and religious minorities for centuries in order to consolidate power for themselves.
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I want to have a good vote in the Senate so we send the message that the Republican and the Democratic party are together in favor of immigration reform.
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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.
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We have the Second Amendment, but no privilege or right under the U.S. Constitution is unlimited.
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Fidel’s oppressive legacy will haunt the Cuban regime and our hemisphere forever.
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Since he took power over half a century ago, Fidel Castro proved to be a brutal dictator who must always be remembered by his gross abuses of human rights, systemic exploitation of Cubans, unrelenting repression, and stifling censorship upon his own people.
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You can have a Second Amendment right, but not a Second Amendment right to an AR-15.
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Bob Menendez Other QuotesÂ
If you got up this morning and had fruits for breakfast, it was probably picked by the bent back of an immigrant worker. If you slept in a hotel or motel of the nation, you probably had your room done by an immigrant worker.
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You don’t go hunting for a deer and shoot 50 rounds.
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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.
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We are a nation of immigrants – all of us.
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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.
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We believe very passionately that an international approach is necessary to achieve some of these goals.
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I don’t believe that, with the click of a mouse, you should be able to buy unlimited amounts of ammunition.
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There’s a contrast between a free market and free-for-all market.
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Sure, banking bills are important, but they don’t save lives.
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My mother was a seamstress, my father an itinerant carpenter.
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