John Kerry

Collectively, an independent electoral commission, adequate citizen education, responsible media coverage, political tolerance for campaigning, and the freedom for domestic Sudanese organizations to observe the electoral process will…

We just not have to meet the amount of humanitarian aid, we have to surpass what we're doing in humanitarian aid.

We need more presence on the ground in Sudan.

I believe we should remain as the Sudan desk in the State Department, focusing on a comprehensive approach.

I believe the trust deficit is the single biggest obstacle to both our nations attaining our goal--the goal we share--of guaranteeing a stable, prosperous, democratic Pakistan.

The paradox is that while the United States is doing more than any other nation to help the refugees... the United States is still deeply distrusted.

I strongly believe that our Government's humanitarian and development aid projects should have an American face.

The Bureau for Policy and Strategic Planning at USAID.

I hope you will join them in supporting this important bill.

I agree that development assistance should be focused on alleviating hunger and poverty with a firewall between these longer-term funds and those meant to achieve shorter-term political objectives.

I applaud the leadership you and Senator Casey have shown in introducing S. 384 and getting it passed through the Committee.

Doubling foreign assistance would be appropriate if properly allocated and managed.

In your foreign policy address at the Brookings Institution in May you articulated the case for strengthening U.S. diplomacy and development assistance.

I especially appreciate the fact that you are working in a bipartisan way on this issue.

I thank God for the leadership we have got, including you, and I pray that God will continue to guide and bless your steps.

The House has shown that they can move this issue through the House.

I think you and the other people in place in the key leadership roles on this issue are the right people to do the job.

I believe that we should move part of our 5 percent of GNP of the military budget, a small fraction of 1 percent, to official development assistance.

In my view, we would do well to have a Cabinet member leading the world effort.

There is a broad consensus in the development community as to why reform matters.

Congress intends to be a strong partner in those efforts.

I am confident that a name will be forthcoming soon.

I would urge you to do it.

Accordingly, I firmly believe that the challenge before us is to build a foundation resting on three legs: Energy, climate change, and national security.

Secretary Clinton and I included this language in the annual defense bill because we recognized at that time the strategic, social, political and economic consequences climate change could have on political instability in parts of the…