John Kerry actually said...

"The President has made the determination that it is in our national interest to respond to Assad's use of chemical weapons with limited military force."

"if Assad can gas his people with impunity, you will never get to Geneva, you will never have a negotiation"

"We are all concerned about the readiness of our military, and I hear it in different places."

"I think we need to, as I said in my opening statement as forcefully as I can, what has brought us to this discussion at the U.N. now is the potential of this force, and we don't want to take it off th..."