There is no bigger judgment for a president of the United States than how you take a nation to war.
John F. KerryI think as we celebrate the 70th anniversary of the UN, it's a good moment to rekindle our efforts to make multilateralism work yet again. And I'm proud to say that in the Iran agreement I think we did show that it can work.
John F. KerryI know something about killing. I don't like killing. And I don't think a state honors life by turning around and sanctioning killing.
John F. KerryThree-quarters of [Bashar Assad] country is displaced. It's in Jordan, it's in Lebanon, it's in Turkey, and in the desert. The threat is that those people in the desert and others could become the next acolytes of ISIL if we don't find a way to join together to go after ISIL.
John F. Kerry