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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.
John Bolton
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John Bolton
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: November 20
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My priority is to give the United States the kind of influence it should have.
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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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I don't think Hamas will be satisfied simply ruling the Gaza Strip.
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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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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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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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