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John Bolton
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: November 20
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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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The European Union can now act like a major power, at least that is what the European Union tells us.
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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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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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America needs an adult in the White House who knows how to deal with China.
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There's no doubt that Iran funds and supplies Hamas with weapons.
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North Korea is going to get away with keeping its nuclear weapons.
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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'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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People don't like to talk about victory and defeat anymore.
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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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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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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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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 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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Reform is not a one-night stand.
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