John Kerry

Our commitment clearly matters.

Our interest is in protecting the sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity of Ukraine.

Bringing people together and finding answers to tough challenges--that's what the United States does.

For me, it is no coincidence that the places where we face some of the greatest national security challenges are also the places where the governments deny basic human rights and opportunities for their people.

And what is true in Kiev is true in so many other places where people look to us to be able to try to provide opportunities.

They are not wearing a uniform, but a whole bunch of them are taking risks in this dangerous world we live in.

If there is a peace agreement to try to end that conflict--and I support what President Santos is doing, at some political risk to himself--we will want to help him secure the peace.

Right now, we don't need a Democratic foreign policy or a Republican foreign policy.

If there is a peace agreement to try to end the conflict in Colombia--and I support what President Santos is doing at some political risk to himself; I traveled there and talked to him about this--we are going to want to help him secure…

They have severely limited freedoms of assembly and expression precisely as you articulate.

I do think there was a feeling that things were moving and there was a level of success.

I think we should do some, but I think there is a legitimate question to figure out where is that break point on price.

We have urged the release--we have spoken out.

There are serious problems about how the people are treated there and what the nature of that regime is.

We are very focused on a couple of possibilities of how we might try to approach that.

We continue to urge them to fulfill their global international responsibilities.

We are not going to.

For me it is no coincidence that the places where we face some of the greatest national security challenges are also places where governments deny basic human rights.

It is impossible to calculate the dangers in a world without American leadership and the vacuum that that would create for extremists and ideologues to exploit.

I firmly believe that in this increasingly interconnected world, global leadership isn't a favor that we do for other countries, it is vital to our own strength.

We will offer certain choices to Foreign Minister Lavrov and to President Putin through him.

We do not seek a world in which we have to apply additional costs to the choices that have been made thus far.

We have a responsibility to be engaged, and we are engaged.

Nothing justifies a military intervention that the world has witnessed.

America's deep and abiding commitment to Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity in the face of Russian aggression.