Quote

My priority is to give the United States the kind of influence it should have.

John Bolton

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

John Bolton
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: November 20
Civil Servant
Diplomat
Lawyer
Politician
Baltimore
Maryland
John Robert Bolton
John Bolton
Influence
United
Give
States
Giving
Kind
Priority
Priorities

More quotes by John Bolton

Image
Texas is a big state. It's a major force in the Republican Party.
John Bolton
Image
Every country has an aspect to it that rubs up people the wrong way.
John Bolton
Image
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.
John Bolton
Image
I am not a professional politician.
John Bolton
Image
North Korea is going to get away with keeping its nuclear weapons.
John Bolton
Image
Let me ask, who died and made him king? Who gave him the authority to endanger 300 million Americans? That's not the way it works, and if he thinks he can get away with that, he's got another think coming.
John Bolton
Image
I've been in the government bureaucracy, I've practiced law, I've done a lot of different things.
John Bolton
Image
I think some of this fascination with the 'Arab Spring' is just a grand experiment with Israel's survival.
John Bolton
Image
You know, as somebody who writes op-eds and appears on the television, I appreciate as well as anybody that…there is a limit to what that accomplishes.
John Bolton
Image
There's no such thing as the United Nations.
John Bolton
Image
If Iran obtains nuclear weapons, then almost certainly Saudi Arabia will do the same, as will Egypt, Turkey and perhaps others in the region.
John Bolton
Image
Let there be no ambiguity about the American view that Syria's lack of cooperation .. is not acceptable.
John Bolton
Image
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.
John Bolton
Image
We need a strong and effective State Department. We can't conduct American affairs in the world without it.
John Bolton
Image
Everybody pursues their national interests. The only one who gets blamed for it is the United States.
John Bolton
Image
I'm not running around the world looking for ways to create hostilities.
John Bolton
Image
I don't think I would have to run a campaign that's financed like General Motors.
John Bolton
Image
Maybe it's my libertarian philosophy: but being in government is hard.
John Bolton
Image
Don't get me wrong: I would love to be president.
John Bolton
Image
I think it's critical that we return national security issues to the center of the overall political debate in America.
John Bolton