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 limit to what that accomplishes.”

“I think some of this fascination with the 'Arab Spring' is just a grand experiment with Israel's survival.”

“People say you favor assassination, what do you think war is? Except that it's assassination on a much larger scale, a much more horrific scale.”

“I don't much believe in bumper sticker characterizations of foreign policy.”

“I don't do carrots.”

“I've been subject to how many security clearance procedures and I must say as irritating as some people may find them I think they are absolutely essential to making sure that people who wor...”

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

“I would not run as a one-issue candidate. Anybody who does that is declaring himself to be marginal.”

“It's not natural disasters that are to blame for the deprivation of the North Korean people, but the failed policies of Kim Jong Il.”

“When you have a regime that would be happier in the afterlife than in this life, this is not a regime that is subject to classic theories of deterrence.”

“We estimate that once Iraq acquires fissile material - whether from a foreign source or by securing the materials to build an indigenous fissile material capability - it could fabricate a nu...”

“I don't think I would have to run a campaign that's financed like General Motors.”

“I don't think Hamas will be satisfied simply ruling the Gaza Strip.”

“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.”

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

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

“Well, I'm a libertarian conservative, so I believe in limited government/maximum individual freedom.”

“Just as the Security Council was largely irrelevant to the great struggle of the last half of the twentieth century - freedom against Communism - so too it is largely on the sidelines in our...”

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

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