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John Bolton [1948-0] American

Rank: 101
Statesman

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I haven't given up on the possibility that sweet reason will prevail.		101
Negotiation is not a policy. It's a technique. It's something you use when it's to your advantage, and something that you don't use when it's not to your advantage.		102
Well, I'm a libertarian conservative, so I believe in limited government/maximum individual freedom.	Freedom	103
I've been subject to how many security clearance procedures and I must say as irritating as some people may find them I think they are absolutely essential to making sure that people who work in sensitive positions in the national security field in our government are entirely loyal to the United States.	Government	104
I want to make sure that, not only in the Republican Party but in the body politic as a whole, people are aware of threats that remain to the United States.		105
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.		106
It's not natural disasters that are to blame for the deprivation of the North Korean people, but the failed policies of Kim Jong Il.		107
There is no such thing as the United Nations.		108
I've been in the government bureaucracy, I've practiced law, I've done a lot of different things.		109
I am pro-American.		110
North Korea is going to get away with keeping its nuclear weapons.		111
Politicians, like generals, have a tendency to fight the last war.		112
There is no excuse for waste, fraud, and abuse in the Defense Department budget.		113
Don't get me wrong: I would love to be president.		114
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.		115
Everybody pursues their national interests. The only one who gets blamed for it is the United States.		116
I don't think Hamas will be satisfied simply ruling the Gaza Strip.		117
There's no doubt that Iran funds and supplies Hamas with weapons.		118
When you have a regime that would be happier in the afterlife than in this life, this is not a regime that is subject to classic theories of deterrence.		119
I don't think there is any good answer to the question why shouldn't gays and lesbians who want to serve their country be allowed to do it.		120
I think the International Criminal Court could be a threat to American security interests, because the prosecutor of the court has enormous discretion in going after war crimes. And the way the Statute of Rome is written, responsibility for war crimes can be taken all the way up the chain of command.		121
Diplomacy is not an end in itself if it does not advance U.S. interests.		122
I don't do carrots.		123
The U.N. is one of many competitors in a marketplace of global problem solving.		124
My priority is to give the United States the kind of influence it should have.		125
You don't need to spend tens of millions of dollars on political consultants to tell you what you think when you already know what you think.		126
Obviously, you make preparations before you engage in any meeting.		201
I think that, especially among conservatives, there's a clear understanding that there are three legs to the conservative stool. There are the free-market economics conservatives, the social conservatives, and the national-security conservatives.		202
The Nobel Peace Prize has become hopelessly politicized. I think it cheapens the prize itself.		203
I have decided not to run for president.		204
I've never attended any Tea Party functions.		205
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.		206
I don't much believe in bumper sticker characterizations of foreign policy.		207
I think some of this fascination with the 'Arab Spring' is just a grand experiment with Israel's survival.		208
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.		209
If Iran obtains nuclear weapons, then almost certainly Saudi Arabia will do the same, as will Egypt, Turkey and perhaps others in the region.		210
Just as the Security Council was largely irrelevant to the great struggle of the last half of the twentieth century - freedom against Communism - so too it is largely on the sidelines in our contemporary struggles against international terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.		211
Maybe it's my libertarian philosophy: but being in government is hard.		212
I am all in favour of democracy in Iraq.		213
I'm not sure history has ended.		214
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.		215
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.	Patriotism	216
I think that Ronald Reagan had it right, being against abortion except in certain limited, defined circumstances.		217
Reform is not a one-night stand.		218
In the United States, there is a broadly shared view that the U.N. is one of many potential instruments to advance U.S. issues, and we have to decide whether a particular issue is best done through the U.N. or best done through some other mechanism.		219
I'm obviously aware that people are quite focused on the economy rather than foreign policy issues, but that is something that should and can be altered as people see the nature of the threats around the world that we face.		220
A lot of people have said to me, 'That's a great idea, running for president. You'll get booked for more speeches. You can write a book.'		221
I don't think I would have to run a campaign that's financed like General Motors.		222
I've been surrounded by some of the best economic minds in the country, and hopefully I've absorbed some of that.		223
It's very personal in its politics, very bitter and very negative.		224
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.		225
I am not a neoconservative.		226
I'm not running around the world looking for ways to create hostilities.		301
There's no religious test under the constitution. That's what it says. Period.		302
I'm a conservative Republican. I have been since I was 15 years old and participated in the 'Goldwater for President' campaign in 1964.		303
Every country has an aspect to it that rubs up people the wrong way.		304
I am not a professional politician.		305
I would not run as a one-issue candidate. Anybody who does that is declaring himself to be marginal.		306
People don't like to talk about victory and defeat anymore.		307

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