John Bolton Quotes
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I am all in favour of democracy in Iraq.
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I think that Ronald Reagan had it right, being against abortion except in certain limited, defined circumstances.
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There is no excuse for waste, fraud, and abuse in the Defense Department budget.
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Just as the Security Council was largely irrelevant to the great struggle of the last half of the twentieth century - freedom against Communism - so too it is largely on the sidelines in our contemporary struggles against international terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
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When you have a regime that would be happier in the afterlife than in this life, this is not a regime that is subject to classic theories of deterrence.
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Well, I'm a libertarian conservative, so I believe in limited government/maximum individual freedom.
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There's no such thing as the United Nations. If the U.N. secretary building in New York lost 10 stories, it wouldn't make a bit of difference.
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You don't need to spend tens of millions of dollars on political consultants to tell you what you think when you already know what you think.
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I want to make sure that, not only in the Republican Party but in the body politic as a whole, people are aware of threats that remain to the United States.
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I don't much believe in bumper sticker characterizations of foreign policy.
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A lot of people have said to me, 'That's a great idea, running for president. You'll get booked for more speeches. You can write a book.'
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I've been in the government bureaucracy, I've practiced law, I've done a lot of different things.
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Every country has an aspect to it that rubs up people the wrong way.
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I'm not sure history has ended.
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We estimate that once Iraq acquires fissile material - whether from a foreign source or by securing the materials to build an indigenous fissile material capability - it could fabricate a nuclear weapon within one year.
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My philosophy is not a bean-counting, accounting 'look at this.' It is a philosophy that smaller government is better government, and government that is closer to the people is best of all.
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The Nobel Peace Prize has become hopelessly politicized. I think it cheapens the prize itself.
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I've never attended any Tea Party functions.
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I don't do carrots.
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Obviously, you make preparations before you engage in any meeting.
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There's no religious test under the constitution. That's what it says. Period.
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I don't think I would have to run a campaign that's financed like General Motors.
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There is no patriotic obligation to help advance the career of a politician who is otherwise pursuing interests that are fundamentally antithetical to your values. That's not the call of patriotism.
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I've been surrounded by some of the best economic minds in the country, and hopefully I've absorbed some of that.