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I am not a professional politician.

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John Bolton
Age: 75
Born: 1948
Born: November 20
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John Robert Bolton
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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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Our biggest national security crisis is Barack Obama.
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There's no such thing as the United Nations. If the U.N. secretary building in New York lost 10 stories, it wouldn't make a bit of difference.
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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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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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Reform is not a one-night stand.
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I've been in the government bureaucracy, I've practiced law, I've done a lot of different things.
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There's no such thing as the United Nations.
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America needs an adult in the White House who knows how to deal with China.
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I'm not running around the world looking for ways to create hostilities.
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Every country has an aspect to it that rubs up people the wrong way.
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North Korea is going to get away with keeping its nuclear weapons.
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There's no doubt that Iran funds and supplies Hamas with weapons.
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The Republican Party is the party of national security. There's hardly a national security wing of the Democratic Party anymore. So if we turn away from it, that'll be a big problem.
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I don't think there is any good answer to the question why shouldn't gays and lesbians who want to serve their country be allowed to do it.
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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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My priority is to give the United States the kind of influence it should have.
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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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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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People don't like to talk about victory and defeat anymore.
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