Quotes By 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 a bit of difference.

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

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.

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

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

It's very personal in its politics, very bitter and very negative.

I've never attended any Tea Party functions.

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.

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

Every country has an aspect to it that rubs up people the wrong way.

I think that Ronald Reagan had it right, being against abortion except in certain limited, defined circumstances.

I don't think there is any good answer to the question why shouldn't gays and lesbians who want to serve their country be allowed to do it.

I'm not running around the world looking for ways to create hostilities.

I don't do carrots.

I think that, especially among conservatives, there's a clear understanding that there are three legs to the conservative stool. There are the free-market economics conservatives, the social conservatives, and the national-security conservatives.

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.

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.

A lot of people have said to me, 'That's a great idea, running for president. You'll get booked for more speeches. You can write a book.'

The U.N. is one of many competitors in a marketplace of global problem solving.

Obviously, you make preparations before you engage in any meeting.

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

Negotiation is not a policy. It's a technique. It's something you use when it's to your advantage, and something that you don't use when it's not to your advantage.

I think the International Criminal Court could be a threat to American security interests, because the prosecutor of the court has enormous discretion in going after war crimes. And the way the Statute of Rome is written, responsibility for war crimes can be taken all the way up the chain of command.

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've been in the government bureaucracy, I've practiced law, I've done a lot of different things.

I've been surrounded by some of the best economic minds in the country, and hopefully I've absorbed some of that.

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 nuclear weapon within one year.

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

I am all in favour of democracy in Iraq.

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.