John Kerry is the secretary of state. He previously was a senator from Massachusetts and the Democratic Party's nominee for president in 2004.
John KerrySays that Hurricane Harvey “dropped more water on Houston in five days than goes over Niagara Falls in a year.”
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Since 2014, "each year, (NATO) nations have been increasing their contributions."
"Surveys show that many of our citizens think we devote a full quarter or even a third of our federal budget to foreign aid."
The nuclear agreement with Iran "never sunsets. There's no sunset in this agreement."
"The so-called defense minister of the People's Republic of Donetsk ... actually posted a bragging social media posting of having shot down a military transport.…
"In the last couple of days, notices were sent (by officials in Ukraine) to Jews in one city indicating that they had to identify themselves…
"The (Russian) ruble is already going down."
Says he "opposed the president’s decision to go into Iraq" in 2003.
On U.S.-Israeli relations, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "set the record straight — he said, our two countries have 'exactly the same policy' (and) 'our security…
Says the Simpson-Bowles deficit reduction proposal urged raising $2 trillion in new revenue.