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• The solution to North Korea is the reunification of the Korean Peninsula. China could influence the North; it supplies 80 to 90 percent of North Korea's energy. The United States have to put pressure on China in order for China to pressure North Korea.

  John Bolton

  Korea, Order, Pressure

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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

  John Bolton

  Negative, Bitter

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

  John Bolton

  Running, Thinking, Campaigns

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• THe Chinese like the satellite state [North Korea] between China and our forces, they fear that in a reunified Korea, American troops would be at the Yalu River and they've seen that movie before. They didn't like it the first time they saw it and they don't like it any better today. So they are quite happy with the divided Korean peninsula and that's a fundamental difference between the way they see things and the way we see things.

  John Bolton

  Rivers, Differences, Korea

  Source: humanevents.com

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• I have looked at public opinion polls in France in the late 1940s and early 1950s during the height of Marshall Plan aid. They had a very negative attitude towards the United States then. There were negative attitudes towards the United States because of Vietnam. There were negative attitudes about the United States when Reagan wanted to deploy intermediate range ballistic missiles. I don't think the president should base his foreign policy on American public opinion polls, let alone foreign public opinion polls.

  John Bolton

  Attitude, Thinking, President

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• We need a strong and effective State Department. We can't conduct American affairs in the world without it.

  John Bolton

  Strong, World, Needs

  Source: humanevents.com

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• You have to negotiate from positions of strength. And right now with Iran, we're not negotiating from a position of strength. The Europeans are negotiating from the position of "Please give up your nuclear weapons program, and by the way if you do we'll give you several boatloads of carrots." The Iranians are quite willing to keep on negotiating on that line for a long time.

  John Bolton

  Giving Up, Iran, Long

  Source: humanevents.com

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• The press tend to stick with that the people don't care about foreign policy in their daily lives and aren't concerned about it and so on and so forth. I don't think that's actually true.

  John Bolton

  Thinking, People, Care

  Source: www.texastribune.org

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• What we want for the Iranian people is control over their own government, which they don't have now. So you would do it through supplying resources and support from the outside to the indigenous people who are already quite unhappy. The mullahs have made hash of the economy since 1979, there's a huge amount of economic dissatisfaction. The young people, who are pretty well educated and sophisticated, know they could have a better life than this strict Islamic law.

  John Bolton

  Islamic, Law, Government

  Source: humanevents.com

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• 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.

  John Bolton

  Struggle, Mass Destruction, Half

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• 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.

  John Bolton

  Party, People, United States

  "Huffpost Hill", www.huffingtonpost.com. August 30, 2010.

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• The International Criminal Court uses a prosecution-only approach. And by putting their fate in the hands of outsiders, countries are really dodging responsibility for actions taken in the name of that country, in the name of the people in that country, by the people of that country themselves. That is, I think, fundamentally the wrong direction to go in.

  John Bolton

  Country, Taken, Responsibility

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• 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.'

  John Bolton

  Running, Book, Writing

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• I have decided not to run for president.

  John Bolton

  Running, President, Decided

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

  John Bolton

  Philosophy, Government, Libertarian

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

  John Bolton

  Thinking, Gaza Strip, Ruling

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

  John Bolton

  Believe, Bumper Sticker, Foreign Policy

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

  John Bolton

  Problem, Problem Solving, Competitors

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

  John Bolton

  Government, Law, Different

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

  John Bolton

  Abuse, Defense, Waste

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• 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.

  John Bolton

  People, Kim, Blame

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

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  Should Have, Giving, Priorities

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• As you know, I have over the years written critically about the U.N. I have consistently stressed in my writings that American leadership is critical to the success of the U.N., an effective U.N., one that is true to the original intent of its charter's framers.

  John Bolton

  Writing, Years, Stressed

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• I am not a professional politician.

  John Bolton

  Politician

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• Texas is a big state. It's a major force in the Republican Party.

  John Bolton

  Party, Texas, Republican

  Source: www.texastribune.org

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