John Kerry actually said...

"Without those talks, without parallel political as well as security talks, the chances of ending the hostilities are, frankly, slim."

"We have told Khartoum, as you have pointed out, Senator Kerry, that we are prepared to help, and we've laid out a roadmap to normalize our bilateral relations."

"I pledge to work with you as closely as possible as we try to find a broad-based and, hopefully, consensus approach to the challenges of this issue."

"one of the key tenets of what we're trying to do is to establish global interoperability so that companies can trade, so that data can reside transparently in different locations in the cloud."