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John Bolton
Age: 75
Born: 1948
Born: November 20
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John Robert Bolton
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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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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 is no excuse for waste, fraud, and abuse in the Defense Department budget.
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I'm not running around the world looking for ways to create hostilities.
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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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Everybody pursues their national interests. The only one who gets blamed for it is the United States.
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Diplomacy is not an end in itself if it does not advance U.S. interests.
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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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Maybe it's my libertarian philosophy: but being in government is hard.
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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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There's no doubt that Iran funds and supplies Hamas with weapons.
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I don't much believe in bumper sticker characterizations of foreign policy.
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My priority is to give the United States the kind of influence it should have.
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Let there be no ambiguity about the American view that Syria's lack of cooperation .. is not acceptable.
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Don't get me wrong: I would love to be president.
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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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Texas is a big state. It's a major force in the Republican Party.
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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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Reform is not a one-night stand.
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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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