John Kerry actually said...

"I predict you are looking at an enormous multiyear effort to help this country essentially become a functioning country."

"this was probably the most rapid multinational military response to an impending human rights crisis in history"

"As Senator Kerry said, the idea of a pay-as-you-go formula ought to be the going-in assumption."

"People have not begun to plan for it, as I can tell, and have not begun to politically prepare their own publics for it."