John Bolton
John Bolton
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionStatesman
Date of Birth20 November 1948
CountryUnited States of America
acquire believes covert effort iranian massive nuclear sensitive states united weapons
The United States believes that the long-standing, massive and covert Iranian effort to acquire sensitive nuclear capabilities makes sense only as part of a nuclear weapons program,
assistance believes biological contained cuba offensive program providing rogue sentence state warfare
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.
believe freedom individual limited
Well, I'm a libertarian conservative, so I believe in limited government/maximum individual freedom.
believe belongs general next particular secretary
Not so fast. We don't believe that the next secretary general belongs to any particular region.
among believe chamber debate deep divisions july member mistake overall paralyzed reform return states
The debate in this chamber in July only highlighted deep divisions among member states and paralyzed the overall reform effort. We believe it would be a mistake to return to that discussion.
believe bumper-sticker foreign-policy
I don't much believe in bumper sticker characterizations of foreign policy.
believe government libertarian
Well, I'm a libertarian conservative, so I believe in limited government/maximum individual freedom.
believe constitute daily failed form starting time
I believe in discipline. I think daily briefings constitute a form of intellectual discipline. Starting on time is a form of discipline. I failed today.
address challenges expansion large peace quickly risk unable
Too large an expansion would risk making it (the council) unable to quickly address challenges to international peace and security.
support work
We will work to get the broadest support we can,
acted council felt including kingdom security send united waiting
We felt that if the Security Council acted without waiting for the AU, it would send the AU a signal. But no other country, including the United Kingdom and France, was with us on that. We think that's too bad.
meets secretary standards
We don't think it meets the standards set by the secretary general.
certainly continued full push resolution
We certainly see a resolution that continued to push for full implementation of 1559,
among certainly five hoping move permanent prepared unanimity
We certainly are hoping for unanimity among the five permanent members. But unanimity or not, we are prepared to move forward.