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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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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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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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The only way to resolve the North Korean problem is to change the regime.
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I'm not sure history has ended.
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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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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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Texas is a big state. It's a major force in the Republican Party.
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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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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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Everybody pursues their national interests. The only one who gets blamed for it is the United States.
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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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Diplomacy is not an end in itself if it does not advance U.S. interests.
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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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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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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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There's no doubt that Iran funds and supplies Hamas with weapons.
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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.
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I wouldn't give up on Russia. I think they have legitimate security concerns from Islamic fundamentalism, not only on their border but in their country.
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