What we want for the Iranian people is control over their own government, which they don't have now. So you would do it through supplying resources and support from the outside to the indigenous people who are already quite unhappy.… — John Bolton Copy Share Image
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. — John Bolton Copy Share Image
There is no excuse for waste, fraud, and abuse in the Defense Department budget. — John Bolton Copy Share Image
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… — John Bolton Copy Share Image
The solution to North Korea is the reunification of the Korean Peninsula. China could influence the North; it supplies 80 to 90 percent of… — John Bolton Copy Share Image
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… — John Bolton Copy Share Image
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… — John Bolton Copy Share Image
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… — John Bolton Copy Share Image
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… — John Bolton Copy Share Image
If Iran obtains nuclear weapons, then almost certainly Saudi Arabia will do the same, as will Egypt, Turkey and perhaps others in the region. — John Bolton Copy Share Image
Iran is barely over 50% Persian, and Arabs, Baluchis, Azeris, Kurds and many other groups feel left out of the society. That regime has… — John Bolton Copy Share Image
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. — John Bolton Copy Share Image
There's no religious test under the constitution. That's what it says. Period. — John Bolton Copy Share Image
