John Kerry

Hopefully, these discussions will lead to practical actions that will help maintain the type of journalism that local communities deserve and expect.

I hope this is the beginning of great and serious action by Congress to encourage experimentation, to enable markets to find their way, to promote the evolution of public media 2.0 and, most urgent of all, to provide digital access to…

We have a lot of work to do, actually, in terms of privacy, Internet neutrality, and other issues.

But, what you've done, essentially, is create a nonprofit entity under the umbrella of your for-profit entity, and the nonprofit entity will go out and do the investigative piece. Is that correct?

Fortunately, this has already begun through the trip that President Obama paid to Europe last month that you alluded to, which does, among other things, underscore U.S. leadership and regaining moral high ground.

He met with the President of Russia, Mr. Medvedev, and demonstrated that the United States and Russia are prepared to begin a new kind of relationship.

We, therefore, have to come up with a new bargain in NATO, a new bargain in transatlantic relations, if we're going to see these institutions work for the future.

I'm convinced that the economic sanctions have far more likelihood of actually doing something than any potential military option that I've seen, which I think carries with it dramatic potential downsides.

I would say that again and again. This is not about regime change. It is about finding a relationship that meets the needs of the region and satisfies the global interests with respect to the nuclear program.

I don't believe it is in our interest to sit down with Iran unless we work out a deal with Russia and China ahead of time that when talks fail, Russia and China will show up at the sanctions effort.

I believe that some of their officials do, but for whatever reason, the leadership did not give the Bush administration the support that I think the Bush administration deserved from them.

We should also want to have a much more open and diverse relationship with the Iranian people.

Having placed too much of the burden in recent years on our military to sort out the most difficult global security challenges, Americans need to have greater faith in our diplomatic power to resolve crises.

Ultimately, Mr. Chairman, conflict with Iran is neither inevitable nor desirable.

Negotiations would serve to isolate Iran even further internationally and put it on the defensive.

It would be unconscionable to start a war with Iran without having first given negotiations a serious and sustained effort.

It is in our overriding national interest to resolve our differences with Iran peacefully.

Most importantly, the President should renew his campaign position that all options will remain on the table.

It will be crucial that the President agree on the automaticity of these sanctions with the P5 countries, especially Russia and China, in advance of talks.

I think the Obama administration has made the right decisions on Iran in its first months in office.

Sometimes it's better to lead with diplomacy, with the military in reserve.

I would suggest that as a country, in addition to trying to negotiate with the Government of Iran, we try to open up to the people of Iran.

I think that diplomacy can be an effective tool for the United States, even in a situation as perilous as this.

If you don't want to leave us with just one option, a military option, you need to join us in much tougher sanctions than those that we have tried in the past.

It would be unconscionable to go to war without having tried diplomacy first.