“The European arguments against the Iran-Libya Sanctions Act demonstrate that "some Europeans have never lost faith in appeasement as a way of life. It is clear that Iran is cynically manipulating gullible (or equally cynical) Europeans to advance its development of weapons of mass destruction.” WayLostClearDevelopmentWeaponsMassArgumentDestructionIranCynicalCynicismSanctionsWeapons Of Mass DestructionMass DestructionLibyaCynicGullibleAppeasementLost Faith Author:John Bolton
“I'm not running around the world looking for ways to create hostilities.” WorldWayRunningAround The WorldHostility Author:John Bolton
“Let me ask, who died and made him king? Who gave him the authority to endanger 300 million Americans? That's not the way it works, and if he thinks he can get away with that, he's got another think coming.” IfsThinkingWayMadeAsksMillionsKingsAuthorityLet MeDiedGet AwayNsa Author:John Bolton
“By creating a prosecutor who is overseen over by a court, they are melding executive and judicial power in a way that can lead to terrible abuses - as the founders of America understood full well. It's why they created a system of separated powers - to set up a constitutional mechanism that would enhance freedom, by making sure that no one's accumulation of power could predominate over [that of] others.” WayWellsAmericaTerribleCreatingUnderstoodAbuseCourtExecutivesMechanismFoundersAccumulationJudicialProsecutorJudicial Power Author:John Bolton
“The way the Statute of Rome is written, responsibility for war crimes can be taken all the way up the chain of command. This is the sort of investigation that some people who live in Fairyland might like to undertake, but which bears no relationship at all to conditions in the real world.” PeopleWorldWayWarRealMightResponsibilityTakenWrittenConditionsCrimeBearsCommandChainsReal WorldRomeInvestigationStatutesWar CrimesChain Of Command Author:John Bolton
“The culture of the State Department is very negative towards a conservative foreign policy. And the model that we all have, of civil servants as neutral careerists who carry out the policy of the elected president, doesn't work nearly the way it should in the State Department. So that there are many people who want to be good civil servants, who want to try and carry out these policies, but are afraid to do so. And I'm not even counting the very small number of conservatives in the State Department who are genuinely at risk.” PeopleWayWantShouldTryingStatesCulturePresidentNumbersRiskPolicyModelsNegativeConservativeBe GoodServantDepartmentForeign PolicyCountingSmall NumbersCivil Servants Author:John Bolton
“The only way to resolve the North Korean problem is to change the regime.” WayProblemResolveRegimesNorth KoreaKoreanNorth Korean Author:John Bolton
“THe Chinese like the satellite state [North Korea] between China and our forces, they fear that in a reunified Korea, American troops would be at the Yalu River and they've seen that movie before. They didn't like it the first time they saw it and they don't like it any better today. So they are quite happy with the divided Korean peninsula and that's a fundamental difference between the way they see things and the way we see things.” WayFirstsStatesWould BeTodayForceDifferencesSawsFirst TimeRiversFundamentalsChinaChineseDividedTroopsKoreaNorth KoreaKoreanSatellitesAmerican TroopsPeninsulas Author:John Bolton
“You have to negotiate from positions of strength. And right now with Iran, we're not negotiating from a position of strength. The Europeans are negotiating from the position of "Please give up your nuclear weapons program, and by the way if you do we'll give you several boatloads of carrots." The Iranians are quite willing to keep on negotiating on that line for a long time.” IfsWayGivingLongLinesPositionWillingPleaseRight NowGiving UpWeaponsLong TimeProgramNuclearIranNuclear WeaponsCarrotsNegotiating Author:John Bolton
“I think the International Criminal Court could be a threat to American security interests, because the prosecutor of the court has enormous discretion in going after war crimes. And the way the Statute of Rome is written, responsibility for war crimes can be taken all the way up the chain of command. This is the sort of investigation that some people who live in Fairyland might like to undertake, but which bears no relationship at all to conditions in the real world.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayWarRealMightInterestResponsibilityTakenWrittenConditionsSecurityCrimeBearsCourtThreatInternationalCriminalsEnormousCommandChainsReal WorldRomeInvestigationDiscretionProsecutorStatutesWar CrimesChain Of Command Author:John Bolton
“Every country has an aspect to it that rubs up people the wrong way.” PeopleWayCountryAspectWrong Way Author:John Bolton
