John Kerry actually said...

"I don't think we've persuaded ourselves that our intervention will necessarily make a bad situation better."

"People have not begun to plan for it, as I can tell, and have not begun to politically prepare their own publics for it."

"As Senator Kerry said, the idea of a pay-as-you-go formula ought to be the going-in assumption."

"this was probably the most rapid multinational military response to an impending human rights crisis in history"