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John Bolton
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: November 20
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People don't like to talk about victory and defeat anymore.
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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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The only way to resolve the North Korean problem is to change the regime.
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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.
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There's no such thing as the United Nations.
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Obama sees America as another country on the UN role call. Somewhere between Albania and Zimbabwe.
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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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North Korea is going to get away with keeping its nuclear weapons.
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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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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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We need a strong and effective State Department. We can't conduct American affairs in the world without 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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Everybody pursues their national interests. The only one who gets blamed for it is the United States.
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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.
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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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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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Don't get me wrong: I would love to be president.
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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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A strong State Department to me means a corps of career officials who believe that their job is to advocate America's interests and who are trained in effective advocacy, not schooled in accommodation.
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America needs an adult in the White House who knows how to deal with China.
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