Quotes from John Bolton

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

I don't do carrots.

The Nobel Peace Prize has become hopelessly politicized. I think it cheapens the prize itself.

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.

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

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

Well, I'm a libertarian conservative, so I believe in limited government/maximum individual freedom.

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.'

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'm not sure history has ended.

There is no excuse for waste, fraud, and abuse in the Defense Department budget.

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

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

The European Union can now act like a major power, at least that is what the European Union tells us.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

I've never attended any Tea Party functions.

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

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.