John Kerry actually said...

"But, before we intervene, we have to be sure humanitarian catastrophes on a scale beyond what one would normally expect to come from fighting in a civil war are imminent."

"They need help in setting up a justice system, courts, police, all of the elements of a functioning state."

"I think it's hard to suggest that, even with a stalemate, if that's where we are--and I want to come back to that in a minute--that, with a Qadhafi who can't sell his oil, with a Qadhafi who has a div..."

"We must recognize that we face an all-too-familiar foreign policy conundrum: There is a large gap between the professed goals of the United States and the means we are prepared to devote to realizing ..."