John Bolton
John Bolton
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionStatesman
Date of Birth20 November 1948
CountryUnited States of America
support work
We will work to get the broadest support we can,
avoid becoming electoral iraq issue process solidarity support
to show the solidarity of international support for the electoral process in Iraq and to avoid it becoming an issue in the upcoming election.
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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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Addressing these issues now will facilitate continued international support for Iraq's security, and it will give the newly elected Iraqi government time to assume office, address constitutional questions and consolidate its authority before confronting issues such as those addressed in this resolution.
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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.
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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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What we see is unanimous support for a very strong, very clear signal, and we're just down now to a very few fine points,
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We strongly support the commission's investigative efforts. We expect the government of Syria to comply with these requests fully and unconditionally as the Security Council resolutions require.
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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.
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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.