John Kerry: “I accept the limits. I accept the possibilities of failure that might go with the limits to it. But as the Senator from…”

“I accept the limits. I accept the possibilities of failure that might go with the limits to it. But as the Senator from Kansas said, we have a responsibility here to try and show some leadership and to take a certain level of risk, if you will. There is a level of risk in not doing that. The level of risk in not doing that is that you invite all of the repercussions I articulated, by making paper tigers out of these institutions that they have struggled to give power to. As I expressed earlier, I hope the distinguished minority leader will open up the opportunity, notwithstanding the second degree, for us--I would like to be able to vote to lift this embargo, because I think there is a moment where that indeed is something you have to do. But I hope that in this delicate moment, where the Russians are so important to our ability, and where our allies rely on us not to do something unilaterally, if we can just create this capacity to approach the multilateral portion of it, then you would be comfortable, I would be comfortable, and I hope the Senator from Kansas, the minority leader, would also feel we are accomplishing what we were setting out to do.”