John Kerry actually said...

"What our troops are doing is extraordinary, and extraordinarily difficult. We have an obligation to make certain that we give them a strategy that is worthy of their sacrifice."

"A light footprint is a more sustainable footprint."

"We also know, and we know this definitively, that this should not become a partisan issue."

"The future course of our mission in Afghanistan has become one of the most important and one of the most difficult questions that we face."