John Bolton

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

— John Bolton

You know, as somebody who writes op-eds and appears on the television, I appreciate as well as anybody that... there is a…

— John Bolton

The solution to North Korea is the reunification of the Korean Peninsula. China could influence the North; it supplies 80 to 90…

— John Bolton

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

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…

— John Bolton

Just like Sept. 11, only with nuclear weapons this time, that's the threat. I think that is the threat. I think it's…

— 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

If Iran obtains nuclear weapons, then almost certainly Saudi Arabia will do the same, as will Egypt, Turkey and perhaps others in…

— John Bolton

Iran is barely over 50% Persian, and Arabs, Baluchis, Azeris, Kurds and many other groups feel left out of the society. That…

— John Bolton

Well, you could take several stories off the buildings of most U.S. government agencies and we'd all probably be better for it…

— John Bolton

There's no religious test under the constitution. That's what it says. Period.

— John Bolton

Reform is not a one-night stand.

— John Bolton

The Iranian government is the government that supplied the arms on the Karin-A to the Palestinian Authority several years ago, they are…

— 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

North Korea is going to get away with keeping its nuclear weapons.

— John Bolton

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

— John Bolton

I think the future of China's unknown, I don't know what direction it's going to go in. It could go in the…

— 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

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

If you get a President (Hillary) Clinton, you might well find, just as after Vietnam, that there is a retraction from Iraq…

— 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 priority is to give the United States the kind of influence it should have.

— 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

I'm a conservative Republican. I have been since I was 15 years old and participated in the 'Goldwater for President' campaign in 1964.

— John Bolton

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

— John Bolton