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Our biggest national security crisis is Barack Obama.

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John Bolton
Age: 75
Born: 1948
Born: November 20
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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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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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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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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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There's no such thing as the United Nations.
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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'm a conservative Republican. I have been since I was 15 years old and participated in the 'Goldwater for President' campaign in 1964.
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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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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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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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I'm not running around the world looking for ways to create hostilities.
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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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Everybody pursues their national interests. The only one who gets blamed for it is the United States.
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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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Maybe it's my libertarian philosophy: but being in government is hard.
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I'm not sure history has ended.
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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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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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Let there be no ambiguity about the American view that Syria's lack of cooperation .. is not acceptable.
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