John Kerry actually said...

"I am pleased to return here, and particularly so in the distinguished company of Defense Secretary Ash Carter."

"The AUMF is ISIL specific, and it does not authorize activities against Assad."

"They are comfortable with what we shared with them, and Saud al-Faisal, the senior Foreign Minister in the world, I might add, publicly sat with me at a press conference in which he articulated their ..."

"I do not want the new President to come in and face the kind of choice that I faced on my desk day one."