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John Bolton
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: November 20
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John Robert Bolton
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I don't much believe in bumper sticker characterizations of foreign policy.
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Don't get me wrong: I would love to be president.
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The European Union can now act like a major power, at least that is what the European Union tells us.
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Reform is not a one-night stand.
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I'm not running around the world looking for ways to create hostilities.
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I think it's critical that we return national security issues to the center of the overall political debate in America.
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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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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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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 doubt that Iran funds and supplies Hamas with weapons.
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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.
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Our biggest national security crisis is Barack Obama.
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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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We need a strong and effective State Department. We can't conduct American affairs in the world without it.
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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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The only way to resolve the North Korean problem is to change the regime.
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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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Obama sees America as another country on the UN role call. Somewhere between Albania and Zimbabwe.
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We estimate that once Iraq acquires fissile material - whether from a foreign source or by securing the materials to build an indigenous fissile material capability - it could fabricate a nuclear weapon within one year.
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