John Bolton
John Bolton
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionStatesman
Date of Birth20 November 1948
CountryUnited States of America
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This report unambiguously rejects the notion that business as usual at the United Nations is acceptable, ... We need to reform the U.N. in a manner that will prevent another oil-for-food scandal. The credibility of the United Nations depends on it.
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This report unambiguously rejects the notion that 'business as usual' at the UN is acceptable, ... We need to reform the UN in a manner that will prevent another oil-for-food scandal.
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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.
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We certainly are hoping for unanimity among the five permanent members. But unanimity or not, we are prepared to move forward.
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Too large an expansion would risk making it (the council) unable to quickly address challenges to international peace and security.
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What I do every morning is get up and ask myself how I'm going to advance the interests and values of the United States.
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We've been in consultations and discussions with a number of other countries on what the contingencies might be and what our reaction would be but I can assure you that until we read the report, we don't have any decisions on it,
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I think that, especially among conservatives, there's a clear understanding that there are three legs to the conservative stool. There are the free-market economics conservatives, the social conservatives, and the national-security conservatives.
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Management reform is not a one-night stand. Management reform is forever. What we really need is a cultural revolution in terms of reform at the United Nations,
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Looking at the future of UNRWA is definitely something we should all be doing, thinking about how to transition to a new UN involvement in the region.
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For the United States, irreversibility is a paramount goal, ... bad behavior.
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We're just pleased with the outcome of the five countries that have been elected. It's a major opportunity for them to participate in the work of the United Nations,
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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.
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I've been subject to how many security clearance procedures and I must say as irritating as some people may find them I think they are absolutely essential to making sure that people who work in sensitive positions in the national security field in our government are entirely loyal to the United States.