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Every country has an aspect to it that rubs up people the wrong way.

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John Bolton
Age: 75
Born: 1948
Born: November 20
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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.
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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.
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I'm a conservative Republican. I have been since I was 15 years old and participated in the 'Goldwater for President' campaign in 1964.
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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.
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The only way to resolve the North Korean problem is to change the regime.
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I'm not running around the world looking for ways to create hostilities.
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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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Don't get me wrong: I would love to be president.
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There's no doubt that Iran funds and supplies Hamas with weapons.
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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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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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There's no such thing as the United Nations.
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Our biggest national security crisis is Barack Obama.
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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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If Iran obtains nuclear weapons, then almost certainly Saudi Arabia will do the same, as will Egypt, Turkey and perhaps others in the region.
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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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I think some of this fascination with the 'Arab Spring' is just a grand experiment with Israel's survival.
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I don't much believe in bumper sticker characterizations of foreign policy.
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A strong State Department to me means a corps of career officials who believe that their job is to advocate America's interests and who are trained in effective advocacy, not schooled in accommodation.
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Maybe it's my libertarian philosophy: but being in government is hard.
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