John Bolton
John Bolton
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionStatesman
Date of Birth20 November 1948
CountryUnited States of America
flexible format forward looking prepared
We're looking forward to Monday, ... We are prepared to be flexible on format and process.
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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.
achieve formats help open time
Time is short, ... open to alternative formats if they help us achieve consensus.
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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.
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Not so fast. We don't believe that the next secretary general belongs to any particular region.
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The negotiating process ... is like making sausage. It isn't necessarily pretty. It takes a long time, and that's the process we're engaged in.
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The nature of the culture is such that the changes we want, both in the way the secretariat functions, and the way member governments function, needs to be changed in a substantial way.
campaign
I'm a conservative Republican. I have been since I was 15 years old and participated in the 'Goldwater for President' campaign in 1964.
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I'm sorry to disappoint you, Congressman. I had no role in this issue.
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If I were a Syrian taxpayer, and my intelligence activities were visible, I would demand a refund, ... So these are the sort of things that remain unanswered.
assertion impossible simply
I must say that the report's assertion is simply impossible to believe,
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It's important that we understand when talking about the relationship between actions of foreign policy and the notions of international law we have the sense of what actually happens practically, which is contrary to most academic views.
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Their threats show why leaving a country like that with a nuclear weapon is so dangerous.
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The issue is how is it possible this kind of behavior persists of denying the existence of a member state of the United Nations. I have viewed the map question as a potential pivot point to change this anti-Israel culture.