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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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John Bolton
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: November 20
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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 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.
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If Iran obtains nuclear weapons, then almost certainly Saudi Arabia will do the same, as will Egypt, Turkey and perhaps others in the region.
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I am not a professional politician.
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America needs an adult in the White House who knows how to deal with China.
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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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I don't think I would have to run a campaign that's financed like General Motors.
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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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People say you favor assassination, what do you think war is? Except that it's assassination on a much larger scale, a much more horrific scale.
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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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I think some of this fascination with the 'Arab Spring' is just a grand experiment with Israel's survival.
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Every country has an aspect to it that rubs up people the wrong way.
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Obama sees America as another country on the UN role call. Somewhere between Albania and Zimbabwe.
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There is no excuse for waste, fraud, and abuse in the Defense Department budget.
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I don't much believe in bumper sticker characterizations of foreign policy.
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People don't like to talk about victory and defeat anymore.
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Don't get me wrong: I would love to be president.
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Our biggest national security crisis is Barack Obama.
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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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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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