John Kerry

I think we need a corollary to your axiom that nothing is agreed until everything is agreed, and instead, we should say that we won't agree to anything until everything is agreed.

We are in a good place now to negotiate.

Now we are going to go for the weapon because it is the only thing we can do, and we will dig deeper, and we will go more secret, and we will take whatever it takes, but we are going to get it because that is all the United States of…

There are a lot of people in the intel community who will sit and tell you... that their whole school of thought in Iran, the hardliners, who welcome the idea that the United States might whack them because they think they will be heroes…

It is all well and good to sit here and theoretically say, ratchet up the sanctions, and you will drive them in to a place where they will crush.

I am not skeptical. I am not skeptical at all. I don't think it changed its calculus. I think it continues to want a nuclear weapons program.

It is absolutely inaccurate to suggest that nobody paid a price in the State Department for what happened.

We take no back seat to any administration ever in our support and our friendship and commitment to the state of Israel.

Sanctions are not going to produce capitulation, and I think that is part of the calculation here.

I don't believe that it is. I mean, it depends what you, I suppose, engage in.

I sat here and said we are skeptical. I sat here and said they have got to prove it.

I think their rhetoric is dangerous and threatening and, you know, incredibly counterproductive and damaging to any potential rational relationship.

This is based on actions, so it is test and verify.

It is my job to lay down a process by which we can measure it.

My hope is and my expectation is that will not have to happen.

I didn't say trust. I said test and verify. Nothing is not based on trust yet, certainly.

I have hope. I can't speak for what they will do or not do.

This opportunity is huge and still exists, but we are not going to link them to the nuclear, because it prejudices them.

You are just dead wrong. We are telling you we will.

We are committed to asking you for additional sanctions if we fail. We will need them.

I have come here representing the President telling you that the President is committed, if this fails, he is going to want to ratchet up, because we are going to have to do what we have to do to make sure they don't get a nuclear capacity.

I urge you to go read his speech, or if you didn't see it or haven't read it, because the President said in his speech today honoring Nelson Mandela, he said, we urge leaders to honor Mandela's struggle for freedom by upholding the basic…

They know that if this fails, sanctions will be increased.

We are not naive. We are not sitting here believing that because somebody says it to you it is true.

They know we are serious about diplomacy, because we prefer to resolve this through diplomacy and to reach a reasonable accord.