John Kerry actually said...

My recommendation is that we now take the sanctions pressure and turn it into a useful diplomatic tool.

Timing ought to take advantage of sanctions, but it ought to move the process when seemingly the other side, through its invitation, is read...

I have personally advocated that we then should be willing to put on the table a positive response to Iran's interest in enriching material ...

I have repeatedly urged the Obama administration to lessen our own need for foreign oil imports by permitting such things as the constructio...