John Bolton Quotes
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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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Everybody pursues their national interests. The only one who gets blamed for it is the United States.
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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 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 Hamas will be satisfied simply ruling the Gaza Strip.
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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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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.
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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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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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Reform is not a one-night stand.
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People don't like to talk about victory and defeat anymore.
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I am pro-American.
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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 am not a neoconservative.
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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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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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There is no such thing as the United Nations.
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Don't get me wrong: I would love to be president.
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I have decided not to run for president.
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Diplomacy is not an end in itself if it does not advance U.S. interests.
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People say you favor assassination, what do you think war is? Except that it's assassination on a much larger scale, a much more horrific scale.