John Kerry

The hearing process has been not just bipartisan, it has been nonpartisan.

I hope the Banking Committee will give Dr. Diamond's nomination full consideration.

I am pleased to support the nomination of Dr. Peter Diamond to become a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

Our nation is facing its greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression.

The size and scope and end state of that departure will be determined by the situation on the ground.

I did not say I disagreed with the deadline. What I said was, this is what the deadline means.

We cannot succeed in Afghanistan without Pakistan's participation.

The goal here is to create a new program.

Senator Kerry himself was in Kabul, playing such an instrumental role in the resolution of that near disaster.

We're going to give it our best.

Every poll shows that less than 10 percent of the people support the Taliban.

Nobody wants to return to the black years of the Taliban.

As President Obama reiterated just a few weeks ago, our Core Goal in Afghanistan and Pakistan is clear: to disrupt, dismantle, and defeat al-Qaeda, and prevent its return to both countries.

I do not want to leave your committee, or anyone who's listening to this hearing, with the impression that any agreements have been reached; they have not.

There's no military solution here.

I happen to believe that the conditions, which I set out last October for deploying more troops, still hold today.

I cannot thank this committee enough--and I mean this sincerely--for what you did last year.

We cannot afford to repeat the mistake which at least three people today lived through, personally.

We share your concern, we share the concern of Chairwoman Lowey in the other body.

The Haitian government hasn't done enough -- a good enough job of communicating with its people about what is being done and what they're at least trying to do or hope to do.

Massachusetts is proud, Mr. Chairman, of Elena Kagan's accomplishments.

I can share with you my complete and total confidence that they apply equally to Solicitor General Elena Kagan.

The purpose of the High-Cost program has always been to help ensure that consumers have access to traditional telecommunications services.

Broadband funding has to focus on households and how well connected they are and measure success by improving those numbers.

Broadband service is increasingly becoming the platform over which Americans communicate and access information.