John Kerry: “The promotion of universal human rights and the empowerment of all Cubans must be the bedrock of our policy toward Cuba.”

What we are trying to achieve now is really to establish some stability if we can, in the relationship, without conceding anything.

Depending on what it involves, shadow diplomacy has also saved us from a war.

The Administration is determined to try to stabilize what has been, particularly recently, a very unstable situation.

People think this is now, you cannot reverse it, it is irreversible.