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
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
The Nobel Peace Prize has become hopelessly politicized. I think it cheapens the prize itself. – John Bolton
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