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Texas is a big state. It's a major force in the Republican Party.

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John Bolton
Age: 75
Born: 1948
Born: November 20
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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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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 am not a professional politician.
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My priority is to give the United States the kind of influence it should have.
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America needs an adult in the White House who knows how to deal with China.
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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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North Korea is going to get away with keeping its nuclear weapons.
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I think some of this fascination with the 'Arab Spring' is just a grand experiment with Israel's survival.
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Diplomacy is not an end in itself if it does not advance U.S. interests.
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Don't get me wrong: I would love to be president.
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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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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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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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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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There is no excuse for waste, fraud, and abuse in the Defense Department budget.
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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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People don't like to talk about victory and defeat anymore.
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Our biggest national security crisis is Barack Obama.
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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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I'm not running around the world looking for ways to create hostilities.
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