John Bolton Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I've never attended any Tea Party functions.”

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

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