John Kerry: “the most critical requirement for a renewed U.S. effort in the fight against global poverty is leadership”

you cannot just sit there anywhere and wish that things are going to be as they have been historically.

Depending on what it involves, shadow diplomacy has also saved us from a war.

We are competing, but everybody has their own approach, which is one of the exciting things here.

We're spending billions--literally, actually, trillions.