Those localized efforts take a long time and they don't deal with the larger issue of ISIL and the question of what you're going to do to really have a solution here. We have to save Syria.
John F. KerryThe race for the White House should be about leadership, and leadership requires that one help heal the wounds of Vietnam, not reopen them.
John F. KerryPresident Clinton was often known as the first black president. I wouldn't be upset if I could earn the right to be the second.
John F. Kerry[Bashar] Assad has made a series of choices ever since then that is literally destroying his country.
John F. KerryIf we don't go far enough fast enough, the damage we inflict could take centuries to undo - if it can be undone at all.
John F. KerryIf Russia is there [in Syria] alone fighting them [ISIL], guess what? Russia becomes the target and Russia starts seeing - who knows - MANPADs will find their way in there, airplanes will fall out of the sky. They will become vilified. They'll become the new magnet, together with Assad, for the jihadis.
John F. Kerry