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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've been surrounded by some of the best economic minds in the country, and hopefully I've absorbed some of that.
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There's no doubt that Iran funds and supplies Hamas with weapons.
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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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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.
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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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Everybody pursues their national interests. The only one who gets blamed for it is the United States.
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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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I've been in the government bureaucracy, I've practiced law, I've done a lot of different things.
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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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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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Maybe it's my libertarian philosophy: but being in government is hard.
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The only way to resolve the North Korean problem is to change the regime.
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Reform is not a one-night stand.
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I don't think Hamas will be satisfied simply ruling the Gaza Strip.
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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.
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Diplomacy is not an end in itself if it does not advance U.S. interests.
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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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Don't get me wrong: I would love to be president.
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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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Texas is a big state. It's a major force in the Republican Party.
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