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I would rather be the candidate of the NAACP than the NRA.

– John Kerry

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Obviously, the entire gas picture and fuel picture of Europe has changed overnight, it's not fun, but we've got to get through it. [ Climate change ] is not something that goes away. Because Putin invaded Ukraine doesn't mean' okay, climate is over, and we don't have to worry about it.'.

– John Kerry

Found on CNN 3 months ago Politics

This is not a free license to come in and pollute like crazy, it's got to be a responsible effort to in the short term fill a gap, but with a clear plan for where you're heading in terms of reducing emissions.

– John Kerry

Found on CNN 3 months ago Politics

We've never stopped talking to China, obviously, if you can't get China to do enough, we can't get where we want to go. So, it's very, very important to continue to work with them.

– John Kerry

Found on CNN 3 months ago Politics

There's no plan to do otherwise at this point in time, certainly, i haven't even thought about anything else right now.

– John Kerry

Found on CNN 4 months ago US News

We hope to go to Sharm el-Sheikh with a clear roadmap of what has been accomplished with respect to those promises made, and what has been done to raise the level of ambition and commitment from those who haven't yet done that, that's our current target, with this effort here. We're currently gearing up to try to make sure that we can get done all the things I just described.

– John Kerry

Found on CNN 4 months ago US News

It's not going to be Build Back Better ; it's going to be something different, my hope is we're going to pass it. I feel like there's greater potential that we will do that than some people may believe. I trust that there's some real possibility of getting climate legislation passed as part of something.

– John Kerry

Found on CNN 4 months ago US News

I don't want to speculate what happens if we don't, i'm going to count on doing it, because we've got to do it.

– John Kerry

Found on CNN 4 months ago US News

There's a lot of discussion going on right now about heat pumps specifically and about other things that we can do to assist Europe to minimize the impact of the loss of Russian gas and oil, not all these plans have been carved in stone at this point. I think heat pumps are a very real alternative to the burning of fuel that takes place today.

– John Kerry

Found on CNN 4 months ago US News

Europe makes terrific heat pumps, i would imagine the Europeans are hot to trot in their own market here ; I don't think they're sitting around waiting for the US to necessarily do it. But where it might be necessary -- yes, it makes sense for other markets to contribute the products where the demand exists.

– John Kerry

Found on CNN 4 months ago US News

I haven't even thought about anything else right now.

– John Kerry

Found on CNN 4 months ago US News

We talked and shared a table last night at dinner and we had a nice conversation about it all.

– John Kerry

Found on CNN 4 months ago US News

I think Joe Manchin is definitively concerned about doing some of the things Joe Manchin thinks ought to be done.

– John Kerry

Found on CNN 4 months ago US News

But it could have a profound negative impact on the climate, obviously. You have a war, and obviously you’re going to have massive emissions consequences to the war. But equally importantly, you're going to lose people's focus, you're going to lose certainly big country attention because they will be diverted, and I think it could have a damaging impact.

– John Kerry

Found on FOX News 5 months ago Latest Headlines

Equally important, you're going to lose people's focus. You're going to lose certainly big country attention because they will be diverted. And I think it could have a damaging impact. So I hope President Putin will help us to stay on track with respect to what we need to do for the climate.

– John Kerry

Found on FOX News 5 months ago Latest Headlines

I've never before seen the world more in need of someone who on day one can begin the incredibly hard work of putting back together the world Donald Trump has smashed apart.

– John Kerry

Found on Reuters 2 years ago Politics

I don't endorse lightly, joe Biden for president and I both got into public service to make our country fairer for people and make the world safer. I've watched Joe Biden for president do exactly that as a senator, statesman, and vice president.

– John Kerry

Found on CNN 2 years ago U.S.

I believe Joe Biden for president is the President our country desperately needs right now, not because I've known Joe Biden for president so long, but because I know Joe Biden for president so well.

– John Kerry

Found on CNN 2 years ago U.S.

Through it all, I've seen Joe tested in public service and tested in life itself. I know his character. I know the measure of a person who never stopped fighting for millions of Americans even as his beloved son was losing a heartbreaking battle with cancer. Joe's strength and Joe Biden for president moral center are inspiring. But so are Joe Biden for president skills as a leader.

– John Kerry

Found on CNN 2 years ago U.S.

Joe Biden for president will defeat President Donald Trump next November. Joe Biden for president's the candidate with the wisdom and standing to fix what President Donald Trump has broken, to restore our place in the world, and improve the lives of working people here at home.

– John Kerry

Found on CNN 2 years ago U.S.

We all have differences on one piece of legislation or another, but in proposing what she has proposed together with Sen.( Ed) Markey, Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez has in fact offered more leadership in one day or in one week than President Trump has in President Trump lifetime on this subject.

– John Kerry

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

The problem is... we have been doing this in a way that's simply not sustainable, there's no country in the world that's living sustainably today.

– John Kerry

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

But there weren't human beings -- it was a different world, folks.

– John Kerry

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

No, you don't, Mr. The President, you will never know what it is like to be in a foxhole or be in the front lines, be in an ambush, to be shot at, see your best friend killed in war, and I object to that.

– John Kerry

Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

What I have done is tried to elicit from him what Iran might be willing to do in order to change the dynamic in the Middle East for the better.

– John Kerry

Found on FOX News 3 years ago Politics

I think everybody in the world is talking about waiting out President Trump.

– John Kerry

Found on FOX News 3 years ago Politics

Every secretary of state, former secretary of state continues to meet with foreign leaders, goes to security conferences, goes around the world.

– John Kerry

Found on FOX News 3 years ago Politics

If you measure the qualities that you are looking for when you choose a vice president.

– John Kerry

Found on FOX News 3 years ago Politics

I’m going to continue to fight.

– John Kerry

Found on FOX News 3 years ago Politics

This isn't good for the United States and there are people across the aisle - as the Senate vote yesterday clearly showed - who know it and need to say it.

– John Kerry

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Top News

Our friends are safer if we stay in this agreement. We made an agreement, Iran is living by the agreement, yes we have concerns on the missiles and Yemen and other things, but we should be working on those.

– John Kerry

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

He never walked away from the table, except to be in that bicycle race where he fell and broke his leg, that was the only time.

– John Kerry

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Politics

American values are universal values, now is not the time to retreat... now is the time for the US to engage.

– John Kerry

Found on CNN 5 years ago Top News

I wouldn't view this as a moment of despair, moment of setback, I would view this as a continuing process.

– John Kerry

Found on Reuters 6 years ago World

So we have to work on intellectual property. We have to work on transparency and accountability, we have to work on certainty and the rules of the road.

– John Kerry

Found on Reuters 6 years ago Top News

It is a contributor to terrorism in many different ways and the extremism that we see in the world today comes to no small degree from the utter exasperation that people have with the sense that the system is rigged, we see this anger manifesting itself in different forms in elections around the world, including ours.

– John Kerry

Found on Reuters 6 years ago World

We see this anger manifesting itself in different forms in elections around the world, including ours.

– John Kerry

Found on Reuters 6 years ago World

The hope is we can make some progress, these are critical hours, we look for Russia’s cooperation, and we obviously look for the regime to listen to Russia and to respond.

– John Kerry

Found on Reuters 6 years ago World

I have deep reservations about just an all-volunteer military, there should be shared responsibility among all Americans.

– John Kerry

Found on Reuters 6 years ago U.S.

There should be shared responsibility among all Americans.

– John Kerry

Found on Reuters 6 years ago U.S.

Every American ought to find a way to serve, somehow. It doesn’t have to be in the military. I like the idea that everybody ought to give back something.

– John Kerry

Found on Reuters 6 years ago U.S.

There are now opportunities for foreign banks to do business with Iran ... Unfortunately there seems to be some confusion among some foreign banks and we want to try and clarify that.

– John Kerry

Found on Reuters 6 years ago Top News

We will meet again to sort of solidify what we talked about today.

– John Kerry

Found on Reuters 6 years ago Industrials

We agreed we're both working at making sure that the ... nuclear agreement is implemented in exactly the way that it is meant to be and that all the parties to that agreement get the benefits that they are supposed to get out of the agreement, we will meet again to sort of solidify what we talked about today.

– John Kerry

Found on Reuters 6 years ago Industrials

We very much welcome Argentina's restoration of its own engagement in politics in so many different issues on energy, on human rights, on environment, on trade.

– John Kerry

Found on Reuters 6 years ago World

The missiles are a violation of the U.N. Security Council resolution because they are longer than the distance allowed for ballistic missiles and, because of that, they represent a potential threat to the countries in the region and beyond, we have made it very clear that the missile concerns remain part of sanctionable activity with respect to Iran. If Iran chooses to violate that, they will invite additional sanctions, as we put them in place just a month ago as a result of the prior tests.

– John Kerry

Found on Reuters 6 years ago World

That's why we left in place the sanctions on human rights, the sanctions on arms, the sanctions on missiles, the sanctions on a state sponsor of terror, we are being more than vigilant, actually.

– John Kerry

Found on CNN 6 years ago Politics

We call on the Assad regime to, at least in a moment of cessation of hostilities, try to show some measure of decency, if that is even possible.

– John Kerry

Found on CNN 6 years ago World

And our hope is that they will also stop their people, their troops and their officials who get in the way or manage these shipments, from actually putting their hands into the shipments and taking out medicine or taking out other preferred items simply to keep for themselves.

– John Kerry

Found on CNN 6 years ago World

What we are trying to do it break that cycle, regrettably there are missiles and fighter aircraft and guns and other things that have been placed into the South China Sea and this is of great concern to everyone who transits and relies on the South China Sea for peaceful trade.

– John Kerry

Found on Reuters 6 years ago World

Russia and China have obviously expressed concerns about THAAD, we have made it very clear we are not hungry or anxious or looking for an opportunity to deploy THAAD.

– John Kerry

Found on CNN 6 years ago Politics

THAAD Is a purely defensive weapon, it is purely capable of shooting down a ballistic missile it intercepts and it is there for the protection of the United States, if we can get to denuclearization, there's no need to deploy THAAD.

– John Kerry

Found on CNN 6 years ago Politics

We can cooperate in areas where our interests and values are aligned despite the fact that we have differences.

– John Kerry

Found on CNN 6 years ago Politics

What we are trying to do it break that cycle, regrettably there are missiles and fighter aircraft and guns and other things that have been placed into the South China Sea and this if of great concern to everyone who transits and relies on the South China Sea for peaceful trade.

– John Kerry

Found on Reuters 6 years ago World

I understand your reservations about it but their military has been deeply engaged in the fight against terrorism.

– John Kerry

Found on Reuters 6 years ago Politics

I'm as proud of this as anything I've been engaged in, no country has ever done what we did. I don't know of any other nation in the world that goes to the lengths we go in active duty, military people digging at active sites, pulling up the remains of a C-130, or helicopter, or something, in order to complete the mission.

– John Kerry

Found on CNN 6 years ago Politics

I would say that probably 99% of Americans don't know that they're here doing what they're doing, but for a lot of Americans, this is one of the most important missions in the world because they're still missing their loved ones and they don't have closure, and people deserve and want closure. War has terrible, lingering scars, and where you have an ability to be able to address them, we should.

– John Kerry

Found on CNN 6 years ago Politics

He was our link to possibilities and to realities.

– John Kerry

Found on CNN 6 years ago Politics

But we'll do our best, like we've been trying so hard to do over the years.

– John Kerry

Found on CNN 6 years ago Politics

We are trying to make absolutely certain that when they start that everybody is clear about roles and what is happening so you don't go there and wind up with a question mark or a failure, you don't want to start Day One not being able to make progress.

– John Kerry

Found on CNN 6 years ago Top News

You have to get to the negotiations without preconditions and have to get to the ceasefire and lay down the road ahead for the transition discussion itself, it's not in our hands.

– John Kerry

Found on CNN 6 years ago Top News

What does it mean they are winning? They control a tiny part of the country. Most is controlled by ISIL or by the Kurds or by someone else, that is not the Russian attitude, I will tell you that.

– John Kerry

Found on CNN 6 years ago Top News

You don't want to start Day One not being able to make progress.

– John Kerry

Found on CNN 6 years ago Top News

It's not in our hands.

– John Kerry

Found on CNN 6 years ago Top News

That is not the Russian attitude, I will tell you that.

– John Kerry

Found on CNN 6 years ago Top News

The fact is there is nothing, absolutely nothing, more demoralizing and disempowering to any citizen of any nation than the belief the system is rigged against them and that people in positions of power are -- to use a diplomatic term of art -- crooks who are stealing the future of their own people, it's everybody's responsibility to condemn and expose corruption, to hold perpetrators accountable and to replace a culture of corruption.

– John Kerry

Found on CNN 6 years ago Politics

The struggle is far from over, but we are headed in the right direction.

– John Kerry

Found on CNN 6 years ago Politics

And I believe that, with effort and with bona-fide legitimate intent to solve the problem on both sides, it is possible in these next months to find those Minsk agreements implemented and to get to a place where sanctions can be appropriately, because of the full implementation, removed.

– John Kerry

Found on Reuters 6 years ago World

What they differ on, obviously, is how you will resolve the actual Assad-Syria problem, but they don't differ on wanting a united Syria, a Syria that is stable, a Syria that is peaceful, a Syria that resolves this problem, and that's why they've agreed to come to the table to put it to the test.

– John Kerry

Found on CNN 6 years ago Top News

I think that some of it will end up in the hands of the IRGC or other entities, some of which are labeled terrorists, i'm not going to sit here and tell you that every component of that can be prevented.

– John Kerry

Found on CNN 6 years ago Top News

You're not going to have a situation where people are sitting down at the table staring at each other or shouting at each other, you're going to have to build some process here, and that's what will begin.

– John Kerry

Found on CNN 6 years ago Top News

I think he recognized that the fight's over and we can move on.

– John Kerry

Found on CNN 6 years ago Top News

We will always stand by Israel and we continue to support Israel as firmly as any administration in history.

– John Kerry

Found on CNN 6 years ago Top News

All of them are Iranian-American families.

– John Kerry

Found on CNN 6 years ago Top News

I raised it immediately with the Iranians. It was not put out by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs or the government directly, it was put out I think by the military over there, the (Revolutionary Guard), who is opposed to what we are doing. the challenge is three or four years ago, we wouldn't have known who to call ... and it could have grown into a major kind of hostage confrontation the way it had previously.

– John Kerry

Found on CNN 6 years ago Politics

I was very angry. I was very, very frustrated and angry that that was released.

– John Kerry

Found on CNN 6 years ago Politics

The challenge is three or four years ago, we wouldn't have known who to call ... and it could have grown into a major kind of hostage confrontation the way it had previously.

– John Kerry

Found on CNN 6 years ago Politics

I'm not going to discuss what I said or didn't say, but suffice it to say I made it crystal clear how serious this was, it was imperative to get it solved ... and within hours we had an agreement.

– John Kerry

Found on CNN 6 years ago Politics

I have raised them in all of our sessions. We've had a lot of conversations. We are continuing those conversations now. And I am hopeful that the day will come soon, obviously sooner rather than later, but soon, when all of our citizens can come home.

– John Kerry

Found on CNN 6 years ago Top News

I think we can all imagine how a similar situation might have played out three or four years ago.

– John Kerry

Found on FOX News 6 years ago Latest Headlines

Implementation Day – which is the day on which Iran proves it has sufficiently downsized its nuclear program and can begin to receive sanctions relief – is going to take place very soon, likely within the next coming days.

– John Kerry

Found on FOX News 6 years ago Latest Headlines

China had a particular approach that it wanted to make, that we agreed and respected to give them space to implement that, today in my conversation with the Chinese I made it very clear that has not worked and we cannot continue business as usual.

– John Kerry

Found on Reuters 6 years ago Top News

If there had been a penalty, we wouldn’t have gotten an agreement, so it has to be voluntary. We got the best deal we could.

– John Kerry

Found on FOX News 6 years ago Politics

I think it actually sends a big powerful message to the marketplace, a lot of jobs are being created.

– John Kerry

Found on FOX News 6 years ago Politics

We need to make certain, given the new circumstances that we're facing, that there is no potential loophole whatsoever, obviously it has to be fail-safe, and that's what the American people need and deserve.

– John Kerry

Found on Reuters 6 years ago Top News

We need to have an agreement somewhat in shape by Thursday if we're going to meet the needs of Friday, and I think everybody wants to try to get this done.

– John Kerry

Found on Reuters 6 years ago Top News

With respect to the question of Assad and the timing, I think the answer is ... it is not clear that he would have to ‘go’ if there was clarity with respect to what his future might or might not be.

– John Kerry

Found on Reuters 6 years ago Top News

There was a sort of particularized focus and perhaps even a legitimacy in terms of -- not a legitimacy, but a rationale that you could attach yourself to somehow and say, 'OK, they're really angry because of this and that,'.

– John Kerry

Found on CNN 6 years ago Politics

This Friday was absolutely indiscriminate.

– John Kerry

Found on CNN 6 years ago Politics

The critical factor in my determination was this: moving forward with this project would significantly undermine our ability to continue leading the world in combating climate change.

– John Kerry

Found on Reuters 6 years ago Company News

President (Barack) Obama is very appreciative of your leadership on the (nuclear) non-proliferation issue, for countering violent extremism, cooperation vis-a-vis Afghanistan and counter-Daesh (Islamic State), we have a very strong set of security interests.

– John Kerry

Found on Reuters 6 years ago Top News

We have to join together in calling for an immediate end to violence. We must stress the importance of avoiding provocative actions and rhetoric, and we must work cooperatively. It's the only way to go forward, is to work cooperative to restore calm.

– John Kerry

Found on CNN 6 years ago Top News

We agreed on the imperative of as soon as possible, perhaps even as soon as tomorrow, but as soon as possible, having a military-to-military deconfliction discussion.

– John Kerry

Found on Reuters 6 years ago Top News

My grandfather told us that the Irish couldn't get jobs because they were not welcome, it was clear to me at the time that the laws in existence basically prohibited certain groups from coming into the United States.

– John Kerry

Found on Reuters 6 years ago Politics

It's basically a miscalculation on their part, an obsession with the details, the problem that they had was the secrecy and that caused a lot of backlash - because it lasted so long.

– John Kerry

Found on Reuters 6 years ago Politics

I view this week as a major opportunity for any number of countries to play an important role in trying to resolve some of the very difficult issues of the Middle East. We need to achieve peace and a way forward in Syria, in Yemen, in the region itself, and I think there are opportunities this week, through these discussions, to make some progress.

– John Kerry

Found on CNN 6 years ago Politics

In consultation with Congress, we will continue to explore ways to increase those figures while maintaining robust security, the need is enormous, but we are determined to answer the call.

– John Kerry

Found on Reuters 6 years ago Top News

We are engaged in further conversation about answering those questions and about de-conflicting the Russian activities from ours.

– John Kerry

Found on CNN 6 years ago Top News

All parties need to refrain from incitement and refrain from engaging in activities that put that relationship at risk.

– John Kerry

Found on Reuters 6 years ago Industrials

We need to get to the negotiation. That is what we're looking for and we hope Russia and Iran, and any other countries with influence, will help to bring about that, because that's what is preventing this crisis from ending.

– John Kerry

Found on Reuters 6 years ago Top News

We want to provide a strong incentive for governments at every level to do all that they can to prosecute trafficking and to shield at-risk populations.

– John Kerry

Found on CNN 6 years ago Politics

The president believes that mil-to-mil conversation is an important next step and hopefully will take place very shortly and help to define some of the different options available to us as we consider next steps in Syria, our focus remains on destroying ISIL (Islamic State militants) and also on a political settlement with respect to Syria, which we believe cannot be achieved with the long-term presence of (President Bashar al-) Assad.

– John Kerry

Found on Reuters 6 years ago Top News

Our focus remains on destroying ISIL (Islamic State militants) and also on a political settlement with respect to Syria, which we believe cannot be achieved with the long-term presence of (President Bashar al-) Assad.

– John Kerry

Found on Reuters 6 years ago Top News

We are satisfied that we will be able to have a process which can get us the answers, if they are not accountable in the way that we expect them to be with appropriate access then they would be in material breach of the agreement and subject to any and all options available to the United States.

– John Kerry

Found on CNN 6 years ago Politics

Ask any Alaskan. I think people in Alaska will tell Donald Trump and tell Ted Cruz it's happening. And all they have to do is come here and open their minds and their eyes and their ears and listen, look. And they will see the impacts of what is happening.

– John Kerry

Found on CNN 6 years ago Politics

He traveled to Iran as a tourist to visit family, committed no crime, yet this nightmare continues, he received approval for his trip from Iranian authorities and was reassured that he would not be punished for his service in the Marines. Now he has suffered in an Iranian prison longer than any American in history.

– John Kerry

Found on CNN 6 years ago Politics

I don't think so, i think what's happened is there is a certain amount of habit, and it's playing out, and that's what has to change, and we will confront those situations.

– John Kerry

Found on CNN 7 years ago Politics

We're very outspoken, and we will remain very clear and outspoken on these issues, we had a very direct conversation today about human rights. They're ready to engage on these issues, and let's see what progress can be made. ... If they challenge their own citizens on the issue of human rights, you will hear us loudly and clearly taking them on with respect to that.

– John Kerry

Found on CNN 7 years ago Politics

We only just finished the negotiation on diplomatic relations a month and a half ago, two months ago. We are just literally months into this after 54 years.

– John Kerry

Found on CNN 7 years ago Politics

There's a sense of an opening possibility only -- and we're exploring whether or not we can find a series of steps that we agree on.

– John Kerry

Found on CNN 7 years ago Politics

Obviously down the road at some point Iran could play a role, but we don't know yet whether they're ready to and willing to and capable of it.

– John Kerry

Found on CNN 7 years ago Politics

I operate on the presumption that Iran is a fundamental danger, that they are engaged in negative activities throughout the [Middle East] region, that they’re destabilizing places, and that they consider Israel a fundamental enemy at this moment in time.

– John Kerry

Found on FOX News 7 years ago World

We want to ensure the security of critical sea lanes and fishing grounds and to see that disputes in the area are managed peacefully and on the basis of international law, i hope very much that at this meeting over the course of today and tomorrow we will find a way to move forward, effectively, together, all of us.

– John Kerry

Found on Reuters 7 years ago Most Read Articles

We continue to call on Iran to immediately release the detained U.S. citizens, these Americans have remained in our thoughts throughout this negotiation. And we will continue to work for their safe and their swift return. And we urge Iran to bring our missing Americans home as well.

– John Kerry

Found on FOX News 7 years ago World

I urged China through Foreign Minister Wang to take actions that will join everybody in helping to reduce tensions and increase the prospect of a diplomatic solution.

– John Kerry

Found on Reuters 7 years ago Top News

It is not a one-way street, it is a two-way street, with mutual interests and mutual needs that need to be addressed, i am confident that with Camp David those views are going to take shape in a form that will greatly enhance our ability to meet the needs of our people, and the needs of all those people, who want a future that is free of terrorism....

– John Kerry

Found on Reuters 7 years ago Politics

President Obama completely understands the stakes.

– John Kerry

Found on Reuters 7 years ago Politics

Neither the United States nor Saudi Arabia are talking with each other or otherwise about sending ground troops into Yemen.

– John Kerry

Found on CNN 7 years ago World

We do have the power to fight back, not only with our military and law enforcements, but also with something that may be more powerful and make a bigger difference in the end, and that is our unity, the only place for al Qaeda, al Shabaab, Boko Haram and others is in the past.

– John Kerry

Found on Reuters 7 years ago World

It was a good meeting.

– John Kerry

Found on Reuters 7 years ago World

We have two and a half months more to negotiate; that's a serious amount of time with some serious business left to do, we hope Congress listens carefully and ask the questions that it wants. But also give us the space and the time to be able to complete a very difficult task which has high stakes for our country.

– John Kerry

Found on FOX News 7 years ago Politics

A lot of people felt that because of the hard fought election and the nature of the presidential contest that they would never come together and that Afghanistan would literally split wide open as a result, close up that is not what I saw.

– John Kerry

Found on CNN 7 years ago Politics

This initiative reflects the strategic importance of the U.S.-Afghan relationship and it recognizes a new era of cooperation between our governments, this is a framework that will incentivize the Afghan public and Afghan government to put our house in order, to be able to spend money.

– John Kerry

Found on CNN 7 years ago Politics

Today's productive meetings underscore both the enduring nature of the U.S.-Afghan friendship and the extent to which we have grown even closer after 14 years of shared sacrifice.

– John Kerry

Found on CNN 7 years ago Politics

Those discussions remain ongoing.

– John Kerry

Found on CNN 7 years ago Politics

He was, of course, a uniquely astute analyst and observer of Asia, and it is largely through his life's work that Singapore became one of the United States' strongest strategic partners in the region.

– John Kerry

Found on CNN 7 years ago World

Let me once again be clear: We don't want just any deal, if we had, we could have announced something a long time ago.

– John Kerry

Found on CNN 7 years ago World

We recognize that fundamental decisions have to be made now and they don't get any easier as time goes by, it is time to make hard decisions. We want the right deal that would make the world, including the United States and our closest partners and allies, safer and more secure, and that is our test.

– John Kerry

Found on CNN 7 years ago World

The Assad regime's horrifying pattern of using chlorine as a chemical weapon against the Syrian people underscores the importance of investigating this allegation as quickly as possible, as has been well documented.

– John Kerry

Found on CNN 7 years ago Politics

If true, this would be only the latest tragic example of the Assad regime's atrocities against the Syrian people, which the entire international community must condemn.

– John Kerry

Found on CNN 7 years ago Politics

The international community cannot turn a blind eye to such barbarism.

– John Kerry

Found on CNN 7 years ago Politics

We are pushing some tough issues, but we made progress.

– John Kerry

Found on FOX News 7 years ago Latest Headlines

If it's peaceful, let's get it done. And my hope is that in the next days that will be possible.

– John Kerry

Found on Reuters 7 years ago Top News

We believe very much that there is not anything that is going to change in April or May or June, that suggests that at that time the decision you can't make now will be made then, if it's peaceful let's get it done. My hope is that in the next days that will be possible.

– John Kerry

Found on FOX News 7 years ago Politics

The proof will be in the pudding, but nobody should be jumping to a conclusion as to what the breadth and framework of this agreement is because it is not yet finalized.

– John Kerry

Found on FOX News 7 years ago Politics

They would welcome our bombing of ISIS, they want to us to destroy ISIS. They want to destroy ISIS.

– John Kerry

Found on CNN 7 years ago Politics

It's really almost insulting.

– John Kerry

Found on CNN 7 years ago Politics

A whole lot of people are trying to give this a grade before the test is taken.

– John Kerry

Found on CNN 7 years ago Politics

This is not a bilateral negotiation ... and all of our partners are consistently sharing information, sharing ideas.

– John Kerry

Found on FOX News 7 years ago Latest Headlines

[ I ] f you have a civilian power plant that’s producing power legitimately and not a threat to proliferation, you could have as many as 190,000 or more centrifuges.

– John Kerry

Found on FOX News 7 years ago Politics

We have amazing ways of being able to dig down and dig deep.

– John Kerry

Found on FOX News 7 years ago U.S.

They are legitimate and the questions have to be answered, and they will be if they want to have an agreement.

– John Kerry

Found on FOX News 7 years ago U.S.

They agreed to roll back their program, i think that's cause for hope.

– John Kerry

Found on FOX News 7 years ago U.S.

And they will be if they want to have an agreement.

– John Kerry

Found on FOX News 7 years ago U.S.

We certainly don't think it's appropriate to condemn it before everybody knows what it, in fact, is if there is an 'is,'.

– John Kerry

Found on FOX News 7 years ago U.S.

There is still a distance to travel.

– John Kerry

Found on Reuters 7 years ago Top News

We know to a certainty what Russia has been providing to the separatists, how Russia is involved with the separatists.

– John Kerry

Found on CNN 7 years ago World

You have to do everything.

– John Kerry

Found on FOX News 7 years ago Politics

No one country, no one army, no one group is going to be able to respond to this adequately.

– John Kerry

Found on FOX News 7 years ago Politics

This is the opportunity to do it, and we need to seize this opportunity, it may not be repeated.

– John Kerry

Found on FOX News 7 years ago World

We are not interested in a proxy war. Our objective is to change Russia's behavior.

– John Kerry

Found on FOX News 7 years ago Latest Headlines

I join my European counterparts in condemning in the strongest terms today's horrific assault by Russia-backed separatists on civilian neighborhoods.

– John Kerry

Found on FOX News 7 years ago Politics

Unless we direct our energies in the right direction, we may very well fuel the very fires we want to put out, there’s no room for sectarian division, there’s no room for anti-Semitism or Islamophobia.

– John Kerry

Found on Reuters 7 years ago World

We have to keep our heads, the biggest error we could make would be to blame Muslims for crimes...that their faith utterly rejects.

– John Kerry

Found on FOX News 7 years ago World

In recent months we have seen definitively ... momentum halted in Iraq and in some cases reversed.

– John Kerry

Found on Reuters 7 years ago World

Ground forces supported by nearly 2,000 air strikes now have reclaimed some 700 square kilometers.

– John Kerry

Found on Reuters 7 years ago World

There is an (arms) pipeline here, and it is working.

– John Kerry

Found on Reuters 7 years ago World

This is a very blatant land grab and it is in direct contravention to the Minsk Agreement that they signed up to.

– John Kerry

Found on FOX News 7 years ago World

And when it is timely, when it is appropriate, I look forward to traveling to Cuba in order to formally open an embassy and begin to move forward.

– John Kerry

Found on Reuters 7 years ago Top News

You have the full and heartfelt condolences of the American people, we share the pain and the horror of everything you went through.

– John Kerry

Found on Reuters 7 years ago World

I think you know that you have the full and heartfelt condolences of the American people and I know you know that we share the pain and the horror of everything that you went through.

– John Kerry

Found on Reuters 7 years ago Most Read Articles

It's good to be with you. We have a lot to talk about.

– John Kerry

Found on Reuters 7 years ago Top News

I think you know that you have the full and heartfelt condolences of the American people and I know you know that we share the pain and the horror of everything that you went through, our hearts are with you.

– John Kerry

Found on FOX News 7 years ago Politics

The United States is prepared to help Bulgaria which has made difficult decisions in order to try to protect its energy future.

– John Kerry

Found on Reuters 7 years ago Energy

Here in Bulgaria, it (the fight on corruption) is not just about strengthening the democracy of the country. It is about providing a climate for investment and shielding the country from those who exploit the situation to gain undue influence over your choices as a nation.

– John Kerry

Found on Reuters 7 years ago Energy

There is no final decision as to whether or not we will meet in Paris, it is possible, but nothing has been decided. It may also not happen.

– John Kerry

Found on Reuters 7 years ago World

My visit to France is basically to share a big hug with Paris.

– John Kerry

Found on Reuters 7 years ago World

It is time for President Assad, the Assad regime to put their people first and to think about the consequences of their actions which are attracting more and more terrorists to Syria, basically because of their efforts to remove Assad.

– John Kerry

Found on FOX News 7 years ago World

We are at a juncture where most of the issues are now getting fleshed out and understood.

– John Kerry

Found on FOX News 7 years ago World

Terror groups like the Pakistani and Afghan Taliban, the Haqqani network, Lashkar-e Taiba, and other groups, continue to pose a threat to Pakistan, to its neighbors, and to the United States, and all of us have a responsibility to ensure that these groups do not gain a foothold but rather are pushed back into the recesses of (Pakistan’s) memory. ... Make no mistake. The task is a difficult one and it is not done.

– John Kerry

Found on Reuters 7 years ago Top News

Obviously, the proof is going to be in the pudding, it will be seen over the next days, weeks, months, how extensive and how successful this effort is going to be.

– John Kerry

Found on Reuters 7 years ago Top News

The tragedy of Dec. 16 is really a reminder of the serious risks of allowing extremists to find space and … command that space and operate within it.

– John Kerry

Found on Reuters 7 years ago Top News

Make no mistake, the task is a difficult one and it is not done.

– John Kerry

Found on FOX News 7 years ago Latest Headlines

We are concerned about the rise of the number of incidents on the border along the line of control.

– John Kerry

Found on FOX News 7 years ago Latest Headlines

Terror groups like the Pakistani and Afghan Taliban, the Haqqani network, Lashkar-e Taiba, and other groups, continue to pose a threat to Pakistan, to its neighbors, and to the United States, and we all of us have a responsibility to ensure that these groups do not gain a foothold but rather are pushed back into the recesses of (Pakistan’s) memory, this task is obviously far from finished.

– John Kerry

Found on Reuters 7 years ago Most Read Articles

We continue to be deeply concerned by the recent spate of increased violence along the working boundary and the line of control, it is profoundly in the interests of Pakistan and India to move this relationship forward.

– John Kerry

Found on Reuters 7 years ago Most Read Articles

It is profoundly in the interests of Pakistan and India to move this relationship forward.

– John Kerry

Found on Reuters 7 years ago Most Read Articles

We have offered, from the first moment, our intel, our law enforcement and all of our efforts, and I really think that, you know, this is sort of quibbling a little bit.

– John Kerry

Found on Reuters 7 years ago U.S.

The meeting is calculated to take stock, number one, and to provide direction to our teams, number two, and to hopefully be able to accelerate the process to make greater progress.

– John Kerry

Found on Reuters 7 years ago World

We can do more together, and we must do more together, and we have to do it faster.

– John Kerry

Found on FOX News 7 years ago World

And we stand together not just in anger and in outrage, but in solidarity and commitment to the cause of confronting extremism and in the cause that extremists fear so much and that has always united our countries: freedom.

– John Kerry

Found on FOX News 7 years ago World

I believe in John's adage that a fight not joined is a fight not enjoyed.

– John Kerry

Found on CNN 7 years ago Top News

If people come together, work together, exert an effort to try to find the common ground here, I'm confident that the people of Israel are as interested in peace as are the people in Palestine, in the West Bank, in Jordan, and in the region, but this is not the moment to opine on that process.

– John Kerry

Found on FOX News 7 years ago U.S.

But this is not the moment to opine on that process.

– John Kerry

Found on FOX News 7 years ago U.S.

And, poof, that was sort of the moment.

– John Kerry

Found on FOX News 7 years ago U.S.

The United States condemns North Korea for the cyber-attack targeting Sony Pictures Entertainment.

– John Kerry

Found on Reuters 7 years ago Company News

The Palestinians've made no determinations about language, approaches, specific resolutions, any of that, this isn't the time to detail private conversations or speculate on a U.N. Security Council resolution that hasn't even been tabled no matter what pronouncements are made publicly about it.

– John Kerry

Found on Reuters 7 years ago World

The United States urges all parties to reach without delay a definitive agreement.

– John Kerry

Found on Reuters 7 years ago World

These sanctions could be lifted in a matter of weeks or days, depending on the choices that President Putin takes, their sole purpose here is to restore the international norm with respect to behavior between nations.

– John Kerry

Found on Reuters 7 years ago Most Read Articles

Right now we're trying to have a constructive conversation with everybody, in the end, though, this isn't up to the international community or others.

– John Kerry

Found on FOX News 7 years ago Latest Headlines

Right now we're trying to have a constructive conversation with everybody to find the best way to go forward in order to create the climate, the atmosphere, the political space if you will, to be able to go back to negotiations, in the end, though, this isn't up to the international community or others.

– John Kerry

Found on FOX News 7 years ago Politics

We want to find the most constructive way of doing something that therefore will not have unintended consequences, that also stems the violence, it's a particular sensitive moment because we understand the frustrations of Palestinians.

– John Kerry

Found on FOX News 7 years ago Politics

In the end, though, this isn't up to the international community or others.

– John Kerry

Found on FOX News 7 years ago Politics

Let me say that Russia has made constructive moves in the last days, there are some indications that whether it is the line of control negotiation or the calm that is, in fact, in place in a number of places, the withdrawal of certain people, there are signs of constructive choices. And that can only be helpful, hopefully.

– John Kerry

Found on Reuters 7 years ago Company News

These sanctions could be lifted in a matter of weeks or days, depending on the choices that President Putin takes.

– John Kerry

Found on Reuters 7 years ago Company News

Their sole purpose here is to restore the international norm with respect to behavior between nations with respect for borders and respect for sovereignty and respect for the rights.

– John Kerry

Found on Reuters 7 years ago Company News

Let me say that Russia has made constructive moves in the last days.

– John Kerry

Found on Reuters 7 years ago Politics

Let me say that Russia has made constructive moves in the last days, there are some indications that whether it is line of control negotiations, or calm that is in place in a number of places, the withdrawal of certain people ... there are signs of constructive choices. That can only be helpful.

– John Kerry

Found on Reuters 7 years ago World

We do not think an AUMF should include a geographic limitation.

– John Kerry

Found on Reuters 7 years ago Top News

The president has been crystal clear that his policy is that U.S. military forces will not be deployed to conduct ground combat operations against ISIL; that will be the responsibility of local forces.

– John Kerry

Found on Reuters 7 years ago Top News

Earlier this week, AQAP released a video announcing that Luke would be murdered within 72 hours. Along with other information, there was a compelling indication that Luke's life was in immediate danger.

– John Kerry

Found on Reuters 7 years ago Top News

We are confident that the policies outlined today by President Ghani and CEO Abdullah will result in a more stable and prosperous Afghanistan, this is an extraordinary moment of transition and the possibilities are so enormous.

– John Kerry

Found on Reuters 7 years ago Top News

I am not going to make any announcements, or confirm or deny the reported military action of another country in Iraq. It is up to them (the Iranians) or up to the Iraqis to do that if it did indeed take place.

– John Kerry

Found on Reuters 7 years ago Most Read Articles

I think it's self-evident that if Iran is taking (action against ISIS) in some particular place, and it's confined to taking on (ISIS) and it has an impact, it's going to be a net effect that is positive, but it's not something we're coordinating.

– John Kerry

Found on CNN 7 years ago Top News

There was a consensus that the momentum which it had exhibited 2½ months ago has been halted.

– John Kerry

Found on CNN 7 years ago Top News

Our commitment will be measured most likely in years but our efforts are already having a significant impact, the roughly 1,000 coalition air missions we have flown have reduced Daesh's leadership and inflicted damage on its logistical and operational capabilities.

– John Kerry

Found on Reuters 7 years ago Top News

It is much harder now than when we started for Daesh to assemble forces in strength, to travel in convoys and to launch concerted attacks, no large Daesh unit can move forward aggressively without worrying what will come down on it from the skies.

– John Kerry

Found on Reuters 7 years ago Top News

That gap is slowly being filled, we are working to sign up additional countries. NATO member countries are close to meeting the troop levels.

– John Kerry

Found on Reuters 7 years ago World

We would be fools.

– John Kerry

Found on Reuters 7 years ago Top News

We hope we're making careful progress, but we have big gaps. We still have some serious gaps, which we're working to close.

– John Kerry

Found on Reuters 7 years ago Most Read Articles

We're working hard, We hope we’re making careful progress, but we have big gaps, we still have some serious gaps, which we’re working to close.

– John Kerry

Found on Reuters 7 years ago World

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