John Kerry actually said...

"Do you really want to have a situation where that gas may be available to these groups if it continues to deteriorate, because Assad can use this gas to continue to subjugate his population that is lo..."

"If the Congress decides not to do this, it is a guarantee... we will have invited a for-certain confrontation."

"The President is not asking you to go to war. He is not asking you to declare war."

"the President would have the authority, and the right, and, conceivably, the imperative to respond without any other authorization if Assad were to attack again."