Quotes By John Bolton

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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

I've never attended any Tea Party functions.

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

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 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 don't do carrots.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Politicians, like generals, have a tendency to fight the last war.

I'm not sure history has ended.

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.