John Bolton

I'm not sure history has ended.

— John Bolton

I am not a neoconservative.

— John Bolton

Reform is not a one-night stand.

— John Bolton

I am pro-American.

— John Bolton

I don't do carrots.

— John Bolton

I am not a professional politician.

— John Bolton

There's no such thing as the United Nations,

— John Bolton

Every country has an aspect to it that rubs up people the wrong way.

— John Bolton

Politicians, like generals, have a tendency to fight the last war.

— John Bolton

I have decided not to run for president.

— John Bolton

I've never attended any Tea Party functions.

— John Bolton

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

— John Bolton

It's very personal in its politics, very bitter and very negative.

— John Bolton

There's no doubt that Iran funds and supplies Hamas with weapons.

— John Bolton

I've been in the government bureaucracy, I've practiced law, I've done a lot of different things.

— John Bolton

There is no excuse for waste, fraud, and abuse in the Defense Department budget.

— John Bolton

America needs an adult in the White House who knows how to deal with China.

— John Bolton

Diplomacy is not an end in itself if it does not advance U.S. interests.

— John Bolton

The only way to resolve the North Korean problem is to change the regime.

— John Bolton

The Nobel Peace Prize has become hopelessly politicized. I think it cheapens the prize itself.

— John Bolton

You don't need to spend tens of millions of dollars on political consultants to tell you what you think when you already…

— John Bolton

It's not natural disasters that are to blame for the deprivation of the North Korean people, but the failed policies of Kim…

— John Bolton

I'm obviously aware that people are quite focused on the economy rather than foreign policy issues, but that is something that should…

— John Bolton

As you know, I have over the years written critically about the U.N. I have consistently stressed in my writings that American…

— John Bolton

It was right to overthrow Saddam Hussein. It was the regime itself that was a threat. I think in hindsight, what I…

— John Bolton

Swapping Bergdahl for illegal enemy combatants (terrorists, in common parlance) signaled unmistakably to Taliban and al Qaeda that Obama is determined to…

— John Bolton

We estimate that once Iraq acquires fissile material - whether from a foreign source or by securing the materials to build an…

— John Bolton

My philosophy is not a bean-counting, accounting 'look at this.' It is a philosophy that smaller government is better government, and government…

— John Bolton

People say you favor assassination, what do you think war is? Except that it's assassination on a much larger scale, a much…

— John Bolton

The press tend to stick with that the people don't care about foreign policy in their daily lives and aren't concerned about…

— John Bolton

I think the Russians basically don't think the North Koreans and the Iranians have the capabilities to get weapon systems that can…

— John Bolton

The way the Statute of Rome is written, responsibility for war crimes can be taken all the way up the chain of…

— John Bolton

The culture of the State Department is very negative towards a conservative foreign policy. And the model that we all have, of…

— John Bolton

Just as the Security Council was largely irrelevant to the great struggle of the last half of the twentieth century - freedom…

— John Bolton

I have looked at public opinion polls in France in the late 1940s and early 1950s during the height of Marshall Plan…

— John Bolton

What we want for the Iranian people is control over their own government, which they don't have now. So you would do…

— John Bolton

The real issue of dealing with proliferation of weapons of mass destruction: nuclear, chemical or biological is: What is your tolerance for…

— John Bolton

I'm not saying that you need a State Department that looks like the litigation department of a major law firm. But you…

— John Bolton

Maybe it's my libertarian philosophy: but being in government is hard.

— John Bolton

Obviously, you make preparations before you engage in any meeting.

— John Bolton