Famous John Bolton Quotes

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 closer to the people is best of all.
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Well, I'm a libertarian conservative, so I believe in limited government/maximum individual freedom.
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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 contemporary struggles against international terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
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I've been in the government bureaucracy, I've practiced law, I've done a lot of different things.
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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.
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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 work in sensitive positions in the national security field in our government are entirely loyal to the United States.
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Maybe it's my libertarian philosophy: but being in government is hard.
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I'm not sure history has ended.
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There is no patriotic obligation to help advance the career of a politician who is otherwise pursuing interests that are fundamentally antithetical to your values. That's not the call of patriotism.
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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.
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