John Bolton
John Bolton
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionStatesman
Date of Birth20 November 1948
CountryUnited States of America
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the world's foremost peddler of ballistic missile-related equipment, components, materials, and technical expertise.
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Sanctions were put in before, it's not clear they're being adhered to, ... The question (is) whether we should do something else in that area in terms of arms into the country.
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Quite some time ago the president said unequivocally we support the development goals in the millennium summit declaration, ... Now that's different from the goals that were actually written by the secretariat. There is no backing away by the United States in the support for the millennium summit declaration.
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We want a very strong signal to the government of Syria that its obstruction has to cease and cease immediately,
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We want a very strong signal from the council to the government of Syria that its obstructionism has to cease, and cease immediately,
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We do not support measures that would constrain legal trade and legal manufacturing of small arms and light weapons.
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I've been an executive branch official my entire public career and, for both constitutional and historical reasons, the executive branch appropriately has typically opposed automatic, non-discretionary directions from all of you esteemed ladies and gentlemen. That's our position. I support it emphatically.
advance
Diplomacy is not an end in itself if it does not advance U.S. interests.
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contained a sentence which said that the U.S. believes Cuba has a developmental, offensive biological warfare program and is providing assistance to other rogue state programs.
outcome waiting
We are waiting for the outcome of the conversations.
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We are aware of the Syrian efforts to acquire dual-use technologies that could be applied to a nuclear weapons program,
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There's no such thing as the United Nations. If the U.N. secretary building in New York lost 10 stories, it wouldn't make a bit of difference.
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Well, we had a lot of messages, ... Mostly I was listening. You know former Secretary of State George Schultz once said listening is vastly underrated as a method of obtaining information, so I was following his advice today.
believe freedom individual limited
Well, I'm a libertarian conservative, so I believe in limited government/maximum individual freedom.