Just as the Security Council was largely irrelevant to the great struggle of the last half of the twentieth century – freedom against Communism – so too it is largely on the sidelines in our contemporary struggles against international terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. – John Bolton
People say you favor assassination, what do you think war is? Except that its assassination on a much larger scale, a much more horrific scale. – John Bolton
Its very personal in its politics, very bitter and very negative. – John Bolton
My philosophy is not a bean-counting, accounting look at this. It is a philosophy that smaller government is better government, and government that is closer to the people is best of all. – John Bolton
I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that…. I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature. – Abraham Cowley