John Kerry

We also face the continued stability of Pakistan, and those issues, a nuclear-armed nation in an existential struggle with extremists and insurgents.

We have to weigh our choices against what is possible.

We must also understand Afghan realities, and recognize the decentralized nature of Afghan society.

We need to recognize that we are in a race against time.

First, it will be the Afghans who must ultimately win or lose the struggle with the Taliban.

We also know, and we know this definitively, that this should not become a partisan issue.

President Obama has promised to weigh the recommendations of the top commander in Afghanistan--GEN Stanley McChrystal--on whether to commit more troops to this effort.

What our troops are doing is extraordinary, and extraordinarily difficult. We have an obligation to make certain that we give them a strategy that is worthy of their sacrifice.

I am concerned because, at the very moment when our troops and our allies' troops are sacrificing more and more, our plan, our path, our progress seem to be growing less and less clear.

I am concerned by where we are today in Afghanistan, about the rising number of casualties among our troops and those of our allies.

The future course of our mission in Afghanistan has become one of the most important and one of the most difficult questions that we face.

We must not allow our efforts in Afghanistan to be undermined by a lack of commitment.

Helping Iraqis make their country secure will require that we continue to partner closely with Iraqi military and police.

We very much want to follow and to guide us in the years ahead.

This date has turned out to be a very important date, because Iraqis now see that the United States can be trusted in the agreements we sign.

I think the overwhelming majority of Iraqi citizens do believe we have done just that.

We need to begin the process of getting various ethnic and sectarian communities engaged in settling their disputes.

I think our diplomacy in Iraq, internally in bilateral terms but also multilaterally, will have a vital role to play.

If the Iraqi public rejects the agreement, then I believe we have no choice but to withdraw all of our forces as quickly as we can.

Scientists project that the Arctic will be ice free in the summer of 2013. Not in 2050, but 4 years from now.

There is no way the United States of America acting alone can solve this problem. So we have to have China; we have to have India.

There is no way the United States of America, acting alone, can solve this problem, so we have to have China, we have to have India.

Mercy Corps would like to sincerely thank Chairman Kerry and Ranking Member Lugar for their longstanding commitment to peace in Sudan.

In response to the Government not holding elections by July 9, 2009, as called for in the CPA, the Darfuri rebel group Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) allied with some Northern opposition groups and called for a new democratic…

The Comprehensive Peace Agreement ended Sudan's civil war on January 9, 2005. Today, the agreement is holding but remains very fragile.