Everybody pursues their national interests. The only one who gets blamed for it is the United States. — John Bolton Copy Share Image
We need a strong and effective State Department. We can't conduct American affairs in the world without it. — John Bolton Copy Share Image
My priority is to give the United States the kind of influence it should have. — John Bolton Copy Share Image
Swapping Bergdahl for illegal enemy combatants (terrorists, in common parlance) signaled unmistakably to Taliban and al Qaeda that Obama is determined to… — John Bolton Copy Share Image
A strong State Department to me means a corps of career officials who believe that their job is to advocate America's interests… — 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… — John Bolton Copy Share Image
I want to make sure that, not only in the Republican Party but in the body politic as a whole, people are… — 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… — John Bolton Copy Share Image
I've been subject to how many security clearance procedures and I must say as irritating as some people may find them I… — John Bolton Copy Share Image
I have looked at public opinion polls in France in the late 1940s and early 1950s during the height of Marshall Plan… — John Bolton Copy Share Image
The culture of the State Department is very negative towards a conservative foreign policy. And the model that we all have, of… — John Bolton Copy Share Image
THe Chinese like the satellite state [North Korea] between China and our forces, they fear that in a reunified Korea, American troops… — John Bolton Copy Share Image
Although we refer to the International Criminal Court, the real problem is the prosecutor, because it's the prosecutor who decides who to… — John Bolton Copy Share Image
In the United States, there is a broadly shared view that the U.N. is one of many potential instruments to advance U.S.… — John Bolton Copy Share Image
If a prosecutor in The Hague decides that the U.S. has not followed through effectively on an investigation - is unwilling or… — John Bolton Copy Share Image
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 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
![“THe Chinese like the satellite state [North Korea] between China and our forces, they fear that in a reunified Korea, American troops would be at the Yalu River and they've seen that movie before. They didn't like it the first time they saw it and they don't like it any better today. So they are…” quote by John Bolton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6e9/john-bolton-4806_american-troops_the-chinese-like-the-satellite-state-nor_1419744.jpg)
