Quotes By John Bolton

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.

There is no such thing as the United Nations.

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.

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.

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

Reform is not a one-night stand.

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 am pro-American.

In the United States, there is a broadly shared view that the U.N. is one of many potential instruments to advance U.S. issues, and we have to decide whether a particular issue is best done through the U.N. or best done through some other mechanism.

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.

People don't like to talk about victory and defeat anymore.

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.

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

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

I have decided not to run for president.

Diplomacy is not an end in itself if it does not advance U.S. interests.

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

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

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.

I haven't given up on the possibility that sweet reason will prevail.

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

Don't get me wrong: I would love to be president.

I want to make sure that, not only in the Republican Party but in the body politic as a whole, people are aware of threats that remain to the United States.

I am not a professional politician.