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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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John Bolton
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: November 20
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America needs an adult in the White House who knows how to deal with China.
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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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I don't think I would have to run a campaign that's financed like General Motors.
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I'm not running around the world looking for ways to create hostilities.
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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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