John Kerry actually said...

America's principal interest is lasting stability in the Middle East and the gulf region.

I am convinced we've got to be smart, restrained, thoughtful, skilled in our diplomacy, so that we have an opportunity to really pursue ever...

So we need to understand also and Iran needs to understand that the talks that we envision will not be a substitute for Iran's requirement t...

We need to convince Iran that it would in fact be worse off were it to succeed in developing a nuclear weapons capability.