John Kerry

We believe this has a greater chance of changing Cuba than anything that has happened in the last 50 years.

Despite the dangers, I come to you unabashedly ready to say that we Americans, I think, have many and profound reasons for confidence.

We're confronted today by perils that are as old as nationalist aggression, state actions and as new as cyber warfare.

I would suggest very respectfully to members of this committee it is a minimum price for the leadership that we offer to the world.

I raised this issue personally with President Kabila when I saw him.

The implications of this for the region and the implications for Jordan, for Lebanon, for Europe, are stunning.

Now, with respect to Mexico, we have a particularly qualified career civil servant, Roberta Jacobson, who simply because she was tasked to be part of the effort to help the President implement his policy, not hers, his policy--and she did…

Respect for human rights and democracy is not incompatible with countering terrorism.

The President of the country, as you know, was indicted on war crimes. He cannot travel anywhere. We are ready to arrest him if we did.

It is still listed, yes. It is under evaluation for that, but it is still listed, yes.

We remain deeply committed to achieving a two-state solution but as we have said many times, we are looking for both sides to demonstrate a commitment to this goal in both words and deeds.

I think we have the right number. I think we submitted the right number, and that is why we submitted it.

The status quo is simply not sustainable, and current trends are imperiling the viability of a two-state solution.

I think the only thing the nuclear agreement was about, Mr. Chairman, was about getting rid of a nuclear weapon.

The region will pay for that. The Saudis have indicated that if they achieve the agreement they hope to achieve, they are ready to rebuild Yemen.

It is close. The reason I would say to you not at this moment is because we have been working really hard for the last months particularly to bring together a government in Tripoli.

If it does not work, the potential is there that Syria will be utterly destroyed, that Europe will be flooded with even more migrants.

We are trying to prevent that from being disastrous.

The commanding general of the Israeli Defense Forces announced in a speech to a security conference in Israel that because of that agreement, Israel no longer faces an existential threat from Iran in the way that it did.

Never have I seen the country more engaged in more places all at the same time with more issues of consequence.

Yemen, right now, is more than a failed state. It is a growing humanitarian challenge.

You cannot end the war with him.

There are more terrorist organizations with weapons capability and safe havens to hit the homeland than any time since 9/11.

We believe that a two-state solution is absolutely vital not only for peace between Israelis and Palestinians, but for the long-term security of Israel as a democratic and Jewish state at peace with its neighbors.

There has not been, no.