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
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. Thats not the call of patriotism. – John Bolton