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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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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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I'm not running around the world looking for ways to create hostilities.
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I'm not sure history has ended.
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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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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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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 need a strong and effective State Department. We can't conduct American affairs in the world without it.
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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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North Korea is going to get away with keeping its nuclear weapons.
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There's no such thing as the United Nations. If the U.N. secretary building in New York lost 10 stories, it wouldn't make a bit of difference.
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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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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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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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I don't think I would have to run a campaign that's financed like General Motors.
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Maybe it's my libertarian philosophy: but being in government is hard.
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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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There's no such thing as the United Nations.
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I am not a professional politician.
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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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Our biggest national security crisis is Barack Obama.
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