John Kerry actually said...

"We cannot be confident of the agenda of the opposition toward either the Libyan people or various United States interests, including counterterrorism."

"This all argues for reducing the immediate aims of American foreign policy and giving priority to humanitarian as opposed to political goals."

"that would be an al-Qaeda recruiter's dream and something that we had a national interest in avoiding"

"I think one thing we have seen in this whole drama over the last few months is that events in one country in the Middle East affect events in all of the others."