John Kerry

We have done an incredible job under the hardest of circumstances hardening sites where they can be...

If we bring sector sanctions, Russia is going to really hurt. I think that is a strong deterrent.

The Israelis and the Palestinians do not declare it dead. They want to continue to negotiate.

There will be challenges ahead. I do not want anybody to suggest this smoothes the way completely at all.

Last week, the Senate... unanimously approved a Syrian humanitarian aid resolution that was sponsored by myself and Senator Rubio.

It is just beyond logic.

I think there is a capacity to change Assad's calculation, and so does the President.

We have more of our own people. We have significantly hardened up the Embassy there.

This notion that there was no accountability, not just the lives that were changed but the lives lost...

But he is still sending in agents under the pretext for further action. He has not been deterred.

It is an act of personal terror. It is not international terrorism under the sense of the definition that fits for the designation.

First of all, you know it is our position the Government of the United States and the President supports the notion of Israel being defined as a Jewish state.

We have made it clear to both sides our deep concerns about the reported 'oil for goods' deal.

No other nation can give people the confidence to come together and confront the most difficult challenges the way the United States can and must.

Taxpayers are getting an extraordinary return on their investment.

We will continue to urge Iran to release our American citizens, Amir Hekmati, Saeed Abedini, and we will work to help find Robert Levinson.

I give great credit to President Karzai who appointed the commission, played by the rules, helped make this happen.

The United States is the largest provider of humanitarian aid in the world to Syrians outside Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Turkey especially.

We have moved vessels into the region. We have sent clear messages of our need and willingness to defend the United States of America and our interests in the region.

We are engaged in helping the French to quell the Boko Haram and other people in the region of Mali and elsewhere.

We are the force that has been helping to bring parties together to defend our interests in the South China Sea.

We have helped negotiate a truce in South Sudan and helped to pull that country back from the brink of civil war.

But what was the plan to not have that happen, Senator? I did not notice Congress racing to the barriers saying we are going to do something.

The hard reality is that the relationship with Russia produces both moments of consternation and conflict, as well as cooperation and effect.

The fact is that everybody volunteers gratitude for the fact that the United States is engaged in that effort.