John Kerry stated that "we have our work cut out for us. And I want to thank all of the officials I’ve met with for their open willingness today to accept this kind of workload, to take on these new challenges, to accept the responsibility for improving this important relationship. And as we work to do that between our two countries, we believe we are not only building a relationship between governments, but we’re building a relationship between people, between families, between friends, between entrepreneurs, students, scholars, artists, and others. And we intend to try to grow our people-to-people exchanges, because in the end, those can be perhaps the most consequential and enduring results of diplomacy."