Everybody pursues their national interests. The only one who gets blamed for it is the United States. — 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
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
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'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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
