John Bolton Quotes
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I am all in favour of democracy in Iraq.
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Every country has an aspect to it that rubs up people the wrong way.
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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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Well, I'm a libertarian conservative, so I believe in limited government/maximum individual freedom.
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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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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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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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I don't much believe in bumper sticker characterizations of foreign policy.
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The Nobel Peace Prize has become hopelessly politicized. I think it cheapens the prize itself.
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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 do carrots.
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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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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've never attended any Tea Party functions.
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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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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'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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There's no religious test under the constitution. That's what it says. Period.
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Obviously, you make preparations before you engage in any meeting.
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I'm not running around the world looking for ways to create hostilities.
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I'm obviously aware that people are quite focused on the economy rather than foreign policy issues, but that is something that should and can be altered as people see the nature of the threats around the world that we face.