John Kerry actually said...

"My basic view is that those issues, although immensely challenging, are resolvable."

"One particularly promising diplomatic opening is Saudi King Abdullah's Arab Peace Initiative, which never received the focus that many think it deserved when it was proposed in 2002."

"The concept of violent resistance has got to be consigned to the history books."

"I still believe that if people in that region saw a genuine hope of a way forward, then the traction that those people who are extreme would have greatly diminish."