John F. Kerry: “This is the most important part of this hearing, as far as I am concerned, so I apologize for not being able to listen…”

if, in fact, the Lord Almighty came down and said, 'Look, we guarantee we can monitor whether they're keeping the commitment--no nukes, no missiles'--would we make a deal with them?

There is this moment of opportunity, for whatever reason.

I actually think that the Bush administration's foreign policy over the last four years has been, on many fronts, misguided and self-defeating, and I will continue to oppose these policies.

I apologize very much for being late. I expected to be on time, but I was meeting with some of the families, military families of kids who were in Iraq