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Reform is not a one-night stand.

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John Bolton
Age: 75
Born: 1948
Born: November 20
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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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I'm not running around the world looking for ways to create hostilities.
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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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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've been in the government bureaucracy, I've practiced law, I've done a lot of different things.
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I don't much believe in bumper sticker characterizations of foreign policy.
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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 such thing as the United Nations.
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People don't like to talk about victory and defeat anymore.
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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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Texas is a big state. It's a major force in the Republican Party.
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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'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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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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North Korea is going to get away with keeping its nuclear weapons.
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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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Diplomacy is not an end in itself if it does not advance U.S. interests.
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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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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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We need a strong and effective State Department. We can't conduct American affairs in the world without it.
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