John Bolton Quotes
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I'm not running around the world looking for ways to create hostilities.
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Obviously, you make preparations before you engage in any meeting.
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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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I don't think Hamas will be satisfied simply ruling the Gaza Strip.
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I am pro-American.
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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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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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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'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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Maybe it's my libertarian philosophy: but being in government is hard.
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Reform is not a one-night stand.
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I am not a professional politician.
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I am not a neoconservative.
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I have decided not to run for president.
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There is no such thing as the United Nations.
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People don't like to talk about victory and defeat anymore.
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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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Politicians, like generals, have a tendency to fight the last war.
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It's very personal in its politics, very bitter and very negative.
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Diplomacy is not an end in itself if it does not advance U.S. interests.
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My priority is to give the United States the kind of influence it should have.
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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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I haven't given up on the possibility that sweet reason will prevail.