A biography for John Boltonhasn’t been written yet.
“Negotiation is not a policy. It's a technique. It's something you use when it's to your advantage, and something that you don't use when it's not to your advantage.”
“I am pro-American.”
“There is no such thing as the United Nations.”
“Politicians, like generals, have a tendency to fight the last war.”
“You don't need to spend tens of millions of dollars on political consultants to tell you what you think when you already know what you think.”
“There is no excuse for waste, fraud, and abuse in the Defense Department budget.”
“Reform is not a one-night stand.”
“Well, I'm a libertarian conservative, so I believe in limited government/maximum individual freedom.”
“My priority is to give the United States the kind of influence it should have.”
“I want to make sure that, not only in the Republican Party but in the body politic as a whole, people are aware of threats that remain to the United States.”
“There is no patriotic obligation to help advance the career of a politician who is otherwise pursuing interests that are fundamentally antithetical to your values. That's not the call of patriotism.”
“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.”
“It's not natural disasters that are to blame for the deprivation of the North Korean people, but the failed policies of Kim Jong Il.”
“I think some of this fascination with the 'Arab Spring' is just a grand experiment with Israel's survival.”
“Every country has an aspect to it that rubs up people the wrong way.”
“When you have a regime that would be happier in the afterlife than in this life, this is not a regime that is subject to classic theories of deterrence.”
“I don't think I would have to run a campaign that's financed like General Motors.”
“I don't think there is any good answer to the question why shouldn't gays and lesbians who want to serve their country be allowed to do it.”
“Well, you could take several stories off the buildings of most U.S. government agencies and we'd all probably be better for it too.”
“I'm not sure history has ended.”