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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: 75
Born: 1948
Born: November 20
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Every country has an aspect to it that rubs up people the wrong way.
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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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Our biggest national security crisis is Barack Obama.
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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 excuse for waste, fraud, and abuse in the Defense Department budget.
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Texas is a big state. It's a major force in the Republican Party.
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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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We need a strong and effective State Department. We can't conduct American affairs in the world without it.
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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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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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I don't think I would have to run a campaign that's financed like General Motors.
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The only way to resolve the North Korean problem is to change the regime.
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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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America needs an adult in the White House who knows how to deal with China.
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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'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'm not sure history has ended.
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Don't get me wrong: I would love to be president.
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If you get a President (Hillary) Clinton, you might well find, just as after Vietnam, that there is a retraction from Iraq and of American influence in the world. And in a couple of years the Europeans will be complaining about that too.
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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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