John Kerry

Labor standards, environment standards, business standards are all going to be written into this agreement in ways that they haven't been previously.

If the rules of doing business are written by people who don't adhere to our standards of doing business, that is a race to the bottom.

I want to compliment you on leading in this administration because I think leadership in today's world means leading in a multilateral way.

We are trying to make sure that this delay does not become an excuse for rigging the election, trying to steal it.

I applaud and thank you for your constant focus on these issues, Congressman. You are really the primary focus of the entire Congress on this, and we appreciate it enormously.

Nobody is condoning or allowing people to be 'put down.'

It is difficult because, when I look at my constituents, for example, even going back to 2003, they have had a sense of both hope and skepticism when multilateral negotiations regarding Iran's nuclear program initiated.

Our citizens, our world today, is actually--despite ISIL, despite the visible killings that you see and how horrific they are, we are actually living in a period of less daily threat to Americans and to people in the world than…

We are facing the first AIDS-free generation in history because of the work that we have done.

I want to impress on everybody that I find very helpful and I think the administration finds very helpful the discussions with you.

I appreciate you saying it.

President Putin clearly has made a set of choices that violate all of that.

We deal with independence and sovereignty of nations and respect for agreements.

The Minsk agreement, if it were implemented, would be a good way to deescalate.

We have held together Europe and the United States in unity to put in place sanctions.

We have led on ISIL, putting together a coalition for the first time in history that has five Arab nations engaged in military activity in another Arab country.

We have been diminishing our capacity to be able to have the kind of impact we ought to be having in this more complicated world.

The United States--you know, we get 1 percent of the entire budget of the United States of America.

Well, they are legitimate. And the questions have to be answered, and they will be, if they want to have an agreement.

The proof is in the pudding.

We have made the difference. And now there's a huge reduction in the cases in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea.

We wanted to make sure that we had a Government that really represented people and was going to reform and move in a different direction.

No deal is better than a bad deal.

I have serious doubts that the Minsk agreement will end this crisis.

Iran is an existential threat to them.