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John Bolton
Age: 75
Born: 1948
Born: November 20
Civil Servant
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Baltimore
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John Robert Bolton
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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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Maybe it's my libertarian philosophy: but being in government is hard.
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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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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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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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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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The only way to resolve the North Korean problem is to change the regime.
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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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We need a strong and effective State Department. We can't conduct American affairs in the world without it.
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Our biggest national security crisis is Barack Obama.
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I don't much believe in bumper sticker characterizations of foreign policy.
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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 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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Diplomacy is not an end in itself if it does not advance U.S. interests.
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There is no excuse for waste, fraud, and abuse in the Defense Department budget.
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Every country has an aspect to it that rubs up people the wrong way.
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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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My priority is to give the United States the kind of influence it should have.
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