229 Quotes by John Bolton

Well, we had a lot of messages, ... Mostly I was listening. You know former Secretary of State George Schultz once said listening is vastly underrated as a method of obtaining information, so I was following his advice today.

I don't see that that meeting is going to be productive, because I don't think the Security Council is an exercise in group therapy.

I believe in discipline. I think daily briefings constitute a form of intellectual discipline. Starting on time is a form of discipline. I failed today.

Time is short, ... open to alternative formats if they help us achieve consensus.

We made it clear that was not something we agreed to for a target for ourselves,

People say you favor assassination, what do you think war is? Except that it's assassination on a much larger scale, a much more horrific scale.

We haven't made any decision yet on the specifics, but I think it should be a very strong resolution, leaving no ambiguity that we expect Syrian cooperation.

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.

We haven't given up anything that we have deemed important,