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John Bolton
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: November 20
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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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I don't think I would have to run a campaign that's financed like General Motors.
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Let there be no ambiguity about the American view that Syria's lack of cooperation .. is not acceptable.
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I don't much believe in bumper sticker characterizations of foreign policy.
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Obama sees America as another country on the UN role call. Somewhere between Albania and Zimbabwe.
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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'm not running around the world looking for ways to create hostilities.
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As you know, I have over the years written critically about the U.N. I have consistently stressed in my writings that American leadership is critical to the success of the U.N., an effective U.N., one that is true to the original intent of its charter's framers.
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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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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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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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We need a strong and effective State Department. We can't conduct American affairs in the world without it.
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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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Maybe it's my libertarian philosophy: but being in government is hard.
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Diplomacy is not an end in itself if it does not advance U.S. interests.
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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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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 don't think Hamas will be satisfied simply ruling the Gaza Strip.
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Well, you could take several stories off the buildings of most U.S. government agencies and we'd all probably be better for it too.
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