John Kerry actually said...

"Our ability to advance these goals will tend to be in direct proportion to the help the United States provides the opposition."

"It is time, I think, to address them at the highest levels, and I think more can be done by the President with President Putin to try to find a way forward that starts with agreeing that Assad has to ..."

"Had we based our strategy last winter on what was happening on the ground in Syria, we would have had much better visibility..."

"We cannot appear to be feckless or impotent or ineffective in the face of this kind of use of force by anybody against their own people."