John F. Kerry: “President Karzai ran on a platform of developing a stronger strategic relationship with the United States--and was…”

I really appreciate the coordinated nonpartisan and bipartisan efforts that we have been making in this Committee

We need to get back to building this bipartisanship in foreign policy. It is critical.

This is the most important part of this hearing, as far as I am concerned, so I apologize for not being able to listen to each of you.

I'm going to vote for you because of the standard I have about the President having intelligent, bright people, if they're honorable--and you're all of those things--he gets to choose who he wants.