John Kerry

I am absolutely convinced beyond any doubt this deal makes Israel safer, and the region and the world.

Iran can't adhere to it anyway.

I don't think they are able to develop a nuclear weapon secretly because our intelligence community tells us, with the regime that we have established here, it is physically impossible for them to create an entirely covert secondary fuel…

Well, they have to. If they don't, they are in material breach of the agreement, and we will snap back the sanctions or take other action if necessary.

I wanted to make sure that we knew what we were talking about and the record properly reflects this. Susan Rice's quote is: 'We know their contents, and we are satisfied with them. We will share the contents of those briefings in full and…

Our policy today is specifically focused on pushing back on their activities within the region that destabilize the region.

I think they have a policy of opposition to us and of great enmity.

No, I haven't seen it. I have been briefed on it.

They have an ability to go enrich again. What is the next step for the United States?

What this agreement is supposed to do is stop them from having a nuclear weapon.

If the P5+1 agreement is rejected by the United States, I don't think we can rely on those other countries keeping that money locked up.

It is a lot easier to push back against an Iran that doesn't have a nuclear weapon rather than one that does.

Under the agreement, Iran's leaders are permanently barred from pursuing a nuclear weapon, and there are permanent restraints and access provisions and inspection provisions to guarantee that.

Now, how do we enforce or verify so that that is more than words?

I might remind everybody, all of those other nations have nuclear power or nuclear weapons, and all of them are extremely knowledgeable in this challenge of proliferation.

It will guarantee that Iran's program is under intense scrutiny.

We believe this deal makes our country and our allies safer.

If we walk away from this deal and then we decide to use military force, we are not going to have the United Nations or the other five nations that negotiated with us, because they will feel we walked away.

If you walk away, year 15 or 20 starts tomorrow and without any of the long-term access and verification safeguards that we have put in place.

Under the terms of this agreement, Iran has agreed to remove 98 percent of its stockpile of enriched uranium; dismantle two-thirds of its installed centrifuges; and destroy, by filling it with concrete, the existing core of its heavy-water…

We are convinced that the plan that we have developed with five other nations accomplishes the task that President Obama set out, which is to close off the four pathways to a bomb.

It is physically impossible.

The agreement does not presume any improvement in Iranian behavior on these fronts.

PMD has to be resolved before they get one ounce of sanctions relief.

I think you know this is a matter of common sense, is better to deal with than an Iran with one.