John Kerry

The bottom line is the president has no intention and will not and we do not want to put American troops on the ground to fight this -- or be involved in the fighting of this civil war, period.

I'm absolutely confident, Mr. Chairman, that it is easy, not that complicated to work out language that will satisfy the Congress and the American people that there is no door open here through which someone can march in ways that the…

If the United States of America doesn't do this, Senator, is it more or less likely that Assad does it again? ... If the United States of America doesn't hold him accountable on this, with our allies and friends, it's a guarantee Assad…

Some have tried to suggest that the debate we're having today is about President Obama's red line. I could not more forcefully state that is just plain and simply wrong. This debate is about the world's red line. It's about humanity's red…

Let me be very clear now, because I don't want anything coming out of this hearing that leaves any door open to any possibility. So let's shut that door now as tight as we can.

The failure to act unraveled the deterrent against chemical weapons and risk emboldening Hezbollah and Iran.

According to that assessment, we know with high confidence from the intelligence community that the Syrian government carried out a chemical weapons attack in the Damascus suburbs on August 21st.

The American intelligence community has high confidence, high confidence. This is common sense. This is evidence. These are facts. So the primary question is really no longer what do we know? The question is what are we, we collectively…

What we saw in Syria last week should shock the conscience of the world. It defies any code of morality. Let me be clear. The indiscriminate slaughter of civilians, the killing of women and children and innocent bystanders by chemical…

The indiscriminate slaughter of civilians, the killing of women and children and innocent bystanders by chemical weapons is a moral obscenity.

What we saw in Syria last week, should shock the conscience of the world. It defies any code of morality.

The president has asked for a fine-tuned set of options and he is told he will have that within a matter of days.

A key requirement of any legislation or regulation, if it is to be useful to the public, is public disclosure.

That's completely unacceptable! And in the meantime, our fisheries are wasting an unthinkable volume of this product at a time when we can't afford to waste any opportunity for sustainable harvest in New England.

We need congressional help to rebuild our markets.

It's time we recommitted these funds to the kinds of research projects and regional priorities like stock assessments and monitoring that they were always intended to pay for.

[the Mekong] is a special river. It sustains the lives of over 70 million people. And it is a powerful economic engine that connects the peoples of these countries.

People may die because of what Snowden has done.

Having an election that passes muster and is acceptable according to international observers and standards will be critical to our ability to have the kind of transition we want to have, and to have confidence that the government that…

The talks cannot be allowed to become a process of delay which in and of itself creates a greater danger.

The Santos administration has undertaken a very courageous and very necessary and very imaginative effort to seek a political solution to one of the world's longest conflicts.

Foreign policy today is economic policy.

Secretary Kerry has made it clear that the prevention and mitigation of conflict and the promotion of democracy and human rights go hand in hand with countering transnational crime and terrorism.

Now, more than ever economic policy is foreign policy.

Today, foreign policy is economy policy.