Quote

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.

John Bolton

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

John Bolton
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: November 20
Civil Servant
Diplomat
Lawyer
Politician
Baltimore
Maryland
John Robert Bolton
John Bolton
Philosophy
Government
Best
Bean
Better
Accounting
Look
Beans
Looks
Counting
People
Smaller
Closer

More quotes by John Bolton

Image
Just like Sept. 11, only with nuclear weapons this time, that's the threat. I think that is the threat. I think it's just facing reality. It's not a happy reality, but it's reality and if you don't deal with it, it will become even more unpleasant.
John Bolton
Image
Texas is a big state. It's a major force in the Republican Party.
John Bolton
Image
I don't think Hamas will be satisfied simply ruling the Gaza Strip.
John Bolton
Image
I think some of this fascination with the 'Arab Spring' is just a grand experiment with Israel's survival.
John Bolton
Image
As you know, I have over the years written critically about the U.N. I have consistently stressed in my writings that American leadership is critical to the success of the U.N., an effective U.N., one that is true to the original intent of its charter's framers.
John Bolton
Image
Swapping Bergdahl for illegal enemy combatants (terrorists, in common parlance) signaled unmistakably to Taliban and al Qaeda that Obama is determined to withdraw from Afghanistan no matter what the cost to the United States or those in Afghanistan fighting to remain free.
John Bolton
Image
Maybe it's my libertarian philosophy: but being in government is hard.
John Bolton
Image
There is no excuse for waste, fraud, and abuse in the Defense Department budget.
John Bolton
Image
The European arguments against the Iran-Libya Sanctions Act demonstrate that some Europeans have never lost faith in appeasement as a way of life. It is clear that Iran is cynically manipulating gullible (or equally cynical) Europeans to advance its development of weapons of mass destruction.
John Bolton
Image
I've been in the government bureaucracy, I've practiced law, I've done a lot of different things.
John Bolton
Image
America needs an adult in the White House who knows how to deal with China.
John Bolton
Image
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.
John Bolton
Image
Obama sees America as another country on the UN role call. Somewhere between Albania and Zimbabwe.
John Bolton
Image
I don't think I would have to run a campaign that's financed like General Motors.
John Bolton
Image
If you get a President (Hillary) Clinton, you might well find, just as after Vietnam, that there is a retraction from Iraq and of American influence in the world. And in a couple of years the Europeans will be complaining about that too.
John Bolton
Image
It was right to overthrow Saddam Hussein. It was the regime itself that was a threat. I think in hindsight, what I would have done is turn authority back over to Iraqis much more quickly and say: Your country, you figure out how to run it.
John Bolton
Image
The only way to resolve the North Korean problem is to change the regime.
John Bolton
Image
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.
John Bolton
Image
I'm not running around the world looking for ways to create hostilities.
John Bolton
Image
If I were doing the Security Council today, I'd have one permanent member, the United States, because that's the real reflection of the distribution of power in the world. All international laws are invalid, meaningless attempts to constrict American power.
John Bolton