John Kerry

The President has said he is not going to put American troops.

The President will not put American ground troops into Iraq, and the President made it clear again today.

The moderate opposition recently restated its commitment as a national movement to fighting extremism generally and including ISIL.

I hope you will lay out a plan that will convince us that you are serious about doing the things you said you were going to do to the American people and to us about ISIL because you have not done it now.

That is not Islam, and Islam is not ISIL.

This has been an enormous success thus far.

I think at least we owe the Free Syrian Army to negate the air attacks that they will be subjected to when they finish their training and equipping.

We must destroy ISIS, but we cannot put ourselves in the situation of creating a void.

I know how personally deeply involved you were in Jim's case and in working with us to try to keep the focus on it.

What can we do to help?

I mean, this is a tough time for America--for Americans to be watching their fellow citizens being beheaded by these savage people, and something has got to be done about it.

You cannot sit on the sidelines, at least I cannot, when you have a group that is selling 14-year-olds.

The President has been very clear about that. Certain parts of it will be, absolutely.

I think all the countries in the region have recognized that there was a mistake of judgment with respect to that process.

The military action ends when we have ended the capacity of ISIL to engage in broad-based terrorist activity that threatens the state of Iraq, threatens the United States, threatens the region.

This mission isn't just about taking out an enemy on the battlefield. It's about taking out an entire network--decimating and discrediting a militant cult masquerading as a religious movement.

I want to be clear: the U.S. troops that have been deployed to Iraq do not and will not have a combat mission.

Many Americans question whether there are any moderates left in the Syrian armed opposition. There are.

The President, very wisely in my opinion, insisted that we could not fight the Iraqi battle against the Islamic State for them.

This is a moment in which politics must stop at the water's edge.

The fight of our generation is a combined fight against the immediate challenge of radical, religious extremism.

The more public that is, the more ISIL is de-legitimized, and the ultimate success of this mission is not just a military success, it is a de-legitimization strategy.

We must address the very real threat presented by ISIS.

It is somewhat surprising to me that a member of Congress, particularly one on the Foreign Relations Committee, is going to question the President for fulfilling the vision of the Founding Fathers when they wrote the Constitution, divided…

We do not believe at this point that it is state supported.