John Kerry: “I don't think we should pretend that we have the ability to affect the Iranian elections. We don't.”

It's a matter of mathematics and physics, not politics, not ideology. It is a response to the science.

What we are trying to achieve now is really to establish some stability if we can, in the relationship, without conceding anything.

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

People think this is now, you cannot reverse it, it is irreversible.