John Kerry

Historically politics stopped at the water's edge, it ought to.

I will work, I'll work with the administration, I'll reach out.

I choose to vote my concerns, not to overlook them.

I regret to say that while we heard words sort of offering... I didn't see in the testimony an acknowledgment of the need for a fundamental bipartisan change.

Dr. Rice is one of the principle architects, implementors, and defenders of a series of administration policies.

I support the research and the development. I am skeptical of a rapid deployment prior to its being adequately tested and proven.

I think Colin Powell pushed as hard as he could.

Well, this will be the first time this administration left a faith-based analysis lying by the wayside.

Of course, but they're anxious. I met with one of the principal leaders of Islam in Cairo, and they are fighting their own struggle.

It is paramount because we have an urgent need to isolate the terrorists rather than having them isolate us or having extremists isolate us.

I hope you will really take a look at this. I think it is an important mark of the current leadership because there are such political and obviously security overtones attached to this.

So do I. Terror is the----

Do you believe that we can do a better job than we have been of bridging that gap, of reaching out to moderate Islam?

I think we are way behind the curve in terms of this civilian side combined public diplomacy component.

I recommended that we add another 40,000 troops.

Is this a good cop/bad cop routine, or is it something more thoughtful than that?

Do you not always have that option anyway? Is the option of sanctions and greater action not always on the table?

The Iraqi Stabilization Group that you were put in charge of October 2003 by almost everybody's judgments has disintegrated.

Given the intransigence and the cheating, why does this lend itself more to being resolved diplomatically than Iraq?

I think the inspectors said--I do not want to go back and redebate it, but they said they were partially in compliance and partially out.

That is different from what one hears from some of the other parties to the talks themselves who believe that we have not put something sufficient on the table.

But it is another thing also for them to put their political necks on the line when they have seen a series of, frankly, unilateral and, to them, insensitive steps taken that have worsened the situation and not made it better.

But they are very different in a lot of ways, and that is what concerns a lot of people who are struggling with this now.

There is a deep-rooted skepticism in the region among people who are potential players and existing players.

I want it to work. We all want it to work.