John Kerry

If we are to avoid perpetual conflict and radicalization, more missed opportunities, and countless lives lost, then we have to pursue peace now, and with urgency.

This is the moment when we've got an opportunity to do it.

Working to resolve conflicts and achieving a lasting peace in the Middle East is essential not only to the security of the Israelis and the Palestinians, but, of course, for the region as a whole.

We're prepared to move heaven and earth to get the two-state solution, but we will not expect Israel to take risks with its security.

No, we're evenhanded. We believe in a state of Israel that's confidence of its security, but we are prepared, if the Palestinians are able and willing to take the right measures, to ensure that Palestinians also get the justice and dignity…

The only unity that works is a unity of genuine agreement.

The really critical thing is to reinvigorate the credibility of the whole path to peace.

This is a moment of opportunity.

I share Mr. Blair's optimism that this moment presents an opportunity that we can't afford to miss.

If you look at it just from the market standpoint, you miss the issue that General Wald and his colleagues bring to the table, that this isn't a free market, it's not just an economic issue; it's a national security issue.

Foreign oil dependency is a security threat to our Nation.

Senator Kerry mentioned that if you drive your hybrid properly and all, you can get upward of 150, 170 miles per gallon equivalent.

Energy security is a national security priority.

Our Nation cannot afford to turn its back on the primary oil substitute available today.

I have allocated up to $100 million in the Kerry-Lugar bill (S. 962) for police reform, equipping, and training.

The whole purpose of this is to empower the civic, both in FATA and nationwide, that provides an alternative to what the Taliban are offering.

Your mission is to fight al-Qaeda and to prevent them from retaking over the areas of Afghanistan.

I would say, quite candidly, that wasn't true 7 years ago.

The phrase 'Kerry-Lugar' has a talismanic quality in the Pakistani press now.

We cannot win the war; however you define 'win,' we can't succeed, however you define 'success.'

What happens in Washington is only as good as its reactivation on the ground in the field.

Any United States policy related to Pakistan will require the cooperation and active support of both the executive and legislative branches of our Government.

The United States should make clear to the people of Pakistan that our interests are focused, not on supporting a particular leader or party, but on democracy, pluralism, stability, the fight against violence and extremism.

We seek strong cooperation with the Pakistan Government, the continued improvement in Indo-Pak relations, the secure management of Pakistan's nuclear program, and the development of Afghanistan as a free and stable country governed by the…

Ultimately, the true decisionmakers are the people of Pakistan and the leaders of Pakistan, and that's the way it will be, going forward.