John Kerry actually said...

"They know we are serious about diplomacy, because we prefer to resolve this through diplomacy and to reach a reasonable accord."

"We believe this agreement also opens the door for our ability to deal with some of that."

"We have to build a process. So what we did was we got, I thought, a remarkable amount."

"But I don't think that any of us thought we were just imposing these sanctions for the sake of imposing them."