John Kerry

We need to do--all of us--a job of looking into the future and trying to figure out how we are going to stand up for America's interests and promote them more effectively.

The President made his decision to use force.

I have seen the merry-go-round and the rollercoaster of American foreign policy up close and personal.

Well, let me speak to--there was a request put in for additional security for Ambassador Stevens, and it was given to him.

That will be a second swing at a completely illegal, unconstitutional, internationally unsupportable effort to violate the territorial integrity of Ukraine.

The United States has a responsibility to lead not always to find the pessimism and negativity that is so easily prevalent in the world today.

But if Syria is ever going to be resolved, it is going to be through a political process.

We believe the only way to a two-state solution is through direct negotiations between the two sides.

I have every confidence in your intellect, in your tenacity, in your capacity to try to meet these challenges.

We have an obligation to exhaust every diplomatic possibility to find out whether we could prove what the Iranians say, that their program is peaceful.

The United States remains deeply concerned by the government's response to ongoing protests in Venezuela.

But Central America is not a success story.

The United States continues to strongly oppose unilateral actions that seek to circumvent or prejudge outcomes that can only be reached through negotiations, including Palestinian statehood.

Our commitment to support human rights and democracy, including in challenging environments of the Western Hemisphere, remains strong.

We believe the OAS, as the region's premier multilateral institution, must assume a greater role to help find a peaceful resolution to the crisis in Venezuela.

No decision will be made for Ukraine without Ukraine.

He has united many Ukrainians, even those who are Russian speaking, against Russia.

I totally blame Vladimir Putin. If there is blood shed, it is because of Vladimir Putin, but we have to deter.

This is very significant, but I do not want to overblow it because it is the first one and you have to get through the runoff and there are still challenges.

Selling weapons to North Korea in violation of Security Council resolutions... is in my view a pretty significant terrorist act.

I do not know anybody in the United States of America that said we ought to go to war over Crimea.

In the Middle East peace, we are leading the effort.

We have consistently called on the Venezuelan Government to release those it unjustly jailed, lift restrictions on freedom of the press, respect freedoms of assembly and association.

I think we all acknowledge that this was critical for the President to get Russia to change Assad's calculation on the use of chemical weapons.

I do not believe that Russia has particularly helped itself.