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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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John Bolton
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: November 20
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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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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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Don't get me wrong: I would love to be president.
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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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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 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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There's no such thing as the United Nations. If the U.N. secretary building in New York lost 10 stories, it wouldn't make a bit of difference.
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The European Union can now act like a major power, at least that is what the European Union tells us.
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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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My priority is to give the United States the kind of influence it should have.
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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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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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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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North Korea is going to get away with keeping its nuclear weapons.
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There's no such thing as the United Nations.
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Every country has an aspect to it that rubs up people the wrong way.
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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 don't think Hamas will be satisfied simply ruling the Gaza Strip.
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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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