John Kerry actually said...

"I hope you will join them in supporting this important bill."

"Doubling foreign assistance would be appropriate if properly allocated and managed."

"I agree that development assistance should be focused on alleviating hunger and poverty with a firewall between these longer-term funds and those meant to achieve shorter-term political objectives."

"I believe that we should move part of our 5 percent of GNP of the military budget, a small fraction of 1 percent, to official development assistance."