229 Quotes by John Bolton

We want to thank the secretary-general for his personal and very prompt decision to waive privileges and immunities, ... This is now a serious law enforcement matter and we will have no further comment.

There may be an occasion that we want the U.N. to properly run a program like this.

The remarkable thing is that Congressmen Hyde and Lantos agree on the 39 reforms that they want, ... The signal that they're sending I think is that they want substantial reform, and that's certainly something the administration is committed to.

We did not have sufficient confidence in this text to be able to say that the Human Rights Council will be better than its predecessor.

This is the kind of development that I think shocks our conscience in America, to see the humanitarian impulse so cynically manipulated,

We've been in consultations and discussions with a number of other countries on what the contingencies might be and what our reaction would be but I can assure you that until we read the report, we don't have any decisions on it,

This is 'true confessions' time now for the government of Syria . No more obstruction, no more half measures, we want substantive cooperation and we want it immediately.

We have reached agreement on the bulk of the text and there was movement on all sides. We are very close. It's a very satisfactory text. We have been incredibly flexible.

This is the way the UN operates. And it goes to the question, which is a much longer term question, as to whether the culture of decision making at the UN is the most effective for the organization and that's something that's not going to be resolved today or tomorrow.