John Kerry

There is no military solution to the crisis in Syria.

What I could tell you is that the Russian economy is in much worse shape today than it would have been if the sanctions had not been in effect.

If we find something happening, we are going to respond, as we did on the missile launch.

They have to see that we are, in fact, adhering to the Vienna Convention and engaged in diplomacy.

We are recognizing that it is going to require additional funds from the committee.

The level of cooperation with Israel, notwithstanding the disagreement over the Iran agreement, the cooperation on a day-to-day basis has really just never been higher or better.

President Obama will not rest easy until we have exhausted every possibility.

This takes leadership. If President Kiir and the people around him and Riek Machar and the people around him don't take on responsibility and deliver on this peace agreement, then the international community is absolutely prepared to put…

We just have not had a proof of life since the last one--I think it was 2007?

It has established creditability for the United States, in terms of our goals and hopes.

We have never supported something that is unfair to Israel or out of balance. That has never been the policy of our country.

There has to be some kind of political horizon that both sides can understand, a reduction and elimination of the violence and a real readiness to move forward in real ways that people can grab onto and understand with respect to the…

The purpose the sanctions has changed the policy and get Minsk implemented.

I have heard that, Madam Chair, about the question of some siphoning off.

And since Iran and Russia have signed on to the idea of this political transition expressed in the Geneva Communique of 2012, we have to put that to the test.

We believe it cannot happen except without Assad.

I believe that Prime Minister Netanyahu is preparing some major initiatives with respect to economics and some changes on certain relationship components of the security relationship in the West Bank and other things.

But I will tell you that massive amount of effort now is getting to the Kurds.

It is a fact, indeed, that U.S. military assistance has to go through the central government.

The alternative is that the war gets worse, that Syria might be totally destroyed, not able to be put back together again.

The most critical thing, obviously, on the table at this moment in terms of this conflict resolution is the effort with Russia and Syria.

I really look forward, this is the last budget of the Obama administration, and I look forward to a collaborative effort again this year because, as the chairwoman said and as Chairman Rogers said, we have got this vast array of…

I happen to believe, as does President Obama--and also the Cuban government has expressed its intent to expand development of communications in Internet on the island.

I underscore the `at least'--it is not a ceiling, it is a floor.

There can be no safe haven for abductors.