John Bolton Quotes
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I think the International Criminal Court could be a threat to American security interests, because the prosecutor of the court has enormous discretion in going after war crimes. And the way the Statute of Rome is written, responsibility for war crimes can be taken all the way up the chain of command.
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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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I've been surrounded by some of the best economic minds in the country, and hopefully I've absorbed some of that.
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Everybody pursues their national interests. The only one who gets blamed for it is the United States.
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In the United States, there is a broadly shared view that the U.N. is one of many potential instruments to advance U.S. issues, and we have to decide whether a particular issue is best done through the U.N. or best done through some other mechanism.
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It's not natural disasters that are to blame for the deprivation of the North Korean people, but the failed policies of Kim Jong Il.
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I am pro-American.
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I don't think Hamas will be satisfied simply ruling the Gaza Strip.
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Well, you could take several stories off the buildings of most U.S. government agencies and we'd all probably be better for it too.
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I've been subject to how many security clearance procedures and I must say as irritating as some people may find them I think they are absolutely essential to making sure that people who work in sensitive positions in the national security field in our government are entirely loyal to the United States.
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I have decided not to run for president.
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Politicians, like generals, have a tendency to fight the last war.
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I am not a professional politician.
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Maybe it's my libertarian philosophy: but being in government is hard.
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People don't like to talk about victory and defeat anymore.
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There is no such thing as the United Nations.
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Reform is not a one-night stand.
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I think that, especially among conservatives, there's a clear understanding that there are three legs to the conservative stool. There are the free-market economics conservatives, the social conservatives, and the national-security conservatives.
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It's very personal in its politics, very bitter and very negative.
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You know, as somebody who writes op-eds and appears on the television, I appreciate as well as anybody that... there is a limit to what that accomplishes.
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My priority is to give the United States the kind of influence it should have.
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I am not a neoconservative.
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Diplomacy is not an end in itself if it does not advance U.S. interests.
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I think some of this fascination with the 'Arab Spring' is just a grand experiment with Israel's survival.