John Bolton
John Bolton
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionStatesman
Date of Birth20 November 1948
CountryUnited States of America
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In our view, qualified nations should meet criteria in the following areas: size of economy and population; military capacity; contributions to peacekeeping operations, commitment to democracy and human rights; financial contributions to the United Nations; nonproliferation and counterterrorism records, and equitable geographic balance,
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If for whatever reason the council couldn't fulfill its responsibilities, then I think it would be incumbent on us, and I'm sure we would press ahead to ask other countries or other groups of countries to impose those sanctions.
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I brought the gavel down at 10. I was the only one in the room.
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Identifying those who failed to execute their responsibilities is a necessary part of the process. Prosecuting wrongdoers is equally necessary.
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I don't see that that meeting is going to be productive, because I don't think the Security Council is an exercise in group therapy.
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In the bubble on First Avenue, Volcker is just ignored. I talk about it, but it's a solitary conversation.
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In the absence of serious Syrian cooperation on substantive matters, the mission can't get to the ultimate truth. That is what is seems to me the focus the U.N. Security Council should be.
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All three of these countries are indeed states of very great proliferation concern -- especially North Korea, which uses its exports of military technology to finance other dangerous activity,
clock
This is not a 60-minute clock like football, ... We've got time. We're going to keep working.
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The dismantlement of their nuclear weapons program is critical to any further movement in the talks,
elaborate framework goals targets
a more elaborate framework of goals, targets and indicators.
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The Human Rights Commission is the aspect of governance reform that obviously is ripest and that we have been pressing hardest on and it reflects the almost universal belief that the Human Rights Commission's intergovernmental decision making machinery is broken beyond repair.
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Diplomacy is not an end in itself if it does not advance U.S. interests.
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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.