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John Bolton
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[-said]: The Americans are very open to an argument that they are safer, more secure, their friends around the world are more secure with this kind of conflict,
voanews 31-JAN-12
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[ said]: I don’t think they will be, but it’s in part not because of a lack of training or a lack of equipment,
voanews 26-JAN-12
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[ said]: What I think the problem is, is that people’s attention has turned away from the international sphere, and it’s a big mistake because you can’t have a strong economy without the ability to protect American interests around the world,
washtimes 18-JAN-12
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[ said]: He just doesn’t care about national security the way other presidents did,
ABCnews 15-JAN-12
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[ said]: You know the irony is, he’s campaigning on the basis that he’s a success as a foreign policy president,
ABCnews 15-JAN-12
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[ said]: As somebody pointed out, in 1969 when Americans landed on the moon, it’s like Richard Nixon taking credit for that, because it happened to occur during his presidency,
ABCnews 15-JAN-12
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[-said]: You know, the irony is, he's campaigning on the basis that he's a success as a foreign policy president,
CBSnews 14-JAN-12
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[-said]: He's not only the most radical president in history domestically; he is the first president, Republican or Democrat, at least since Franklin Roosevelt, who didn't get up every morning thinking first about what threats the United States faces,
CBSnews 14-JAN-12
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[-said]: Of all the candidates, Mitt Romney possesses the strongest vision for America’s leadership role in the world, and I am proud to endorse him,
latimes 13-JAN-12
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[-said]: I followed the ... William F. Buckley Jr. test: find the most conservative candidate capable of getting elected, and there are obviously two variables there,
cnn 12-JAN-12
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[-said]: I followed the way that the William F. Buckley Jr. test: find the most conservative candidate capable of getting elected, and there are obviously two variables there,
cnn 12-JAN-12
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[-told]: Romney's conservative enough for me and I think he's the one most likely to get elected, and I think that's critical,
thestar 12-JAN-12
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[-told]: At end of the Bush administration the recommendation of the coordinator for counter-terrorism was to delist the group, but Condoleeza Rice kept them on the list in hope of facilitating negotiations with the regime in Iran,
alertnet 06-JAN-12
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[ said]: Some reports have said Russia sold (Iran) a very sophisticated jamming system a short time ago. Now, our military says that is not true, it came down because of a malfunction. I certainly hope that's right because if the Russians have provided Iran with sophisticated jamming equipment it means a lot else is at risk too,
yediotaharonot 17-DEC-11
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[ said]: I wouldn't call it U.N. bashing; I'd call it U.N. realism,
news 19-NOV-11
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[ said]: Reducing fuel costs and maximizing operational efficiency are top priorities for our customers
finanznachrichten 15-NOV-11
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[ said]: I don't think it's [Palestinian action at the U.N.] conducive to long-term stability in the Middle East or the resolution of the differences between Israel and the Palestinians,
bignewsnetwork 28-SEP-11
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[ said]: I don’t think it’s [Palestinian action at the U.N.] conducive to long-term stability in the Middle East or the resolution of the differences between Israel and the Palestinians,
globalsecurity 28-SEP-11
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[-said]: Action by the General Assembly has no real world impact,
jpost 23-SEP-11
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[-added that]: how we stopped the PLO from joining the WHO [World Health Organization] in 1989.
jpost 20-SEP-11
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[-says]: The impression that's left diplomatically by that kind of inaction is that the administration is really not that opposed to what the Palestinians are trying to do,
npr 18-SEP-11
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[-said]: The only way to achieve lasting reform at the UN is in changing the way the UN is funded. It's a very important part of the legislation,
haaretz 14-SEP-11
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[-said]: ungrateful,
haaretz 14-SEP-11
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[-added]: It's a comment unworthy of Secretary Gates. This is a very important relationship for the U.S., and I think the Obama administration's policies in the region caused real problems not only for Israel, but for the U.S. itself. So that comment by Secretary Gates typifies the Obama administration’s approach. I thought it was unprofessional, uncalled for, and very unfortunate in terms of the bilateral relationship,
haaretz 14-SEP-11
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[-said]: I said after President Obama's speech in the UN General Assembly in 2009, that it was the most anti-Israeli speech by an American president I've ever heard. And I think that since the creation of the State of Israel he is the most hostile president to Israel. I think you can see it play out in his policy, and the next week is going to be a bad week for Israel at the UN,
haaretz 14-SEP-11
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[-said]: It was a very difficult decision, and my view has not changed one iota that we need a much more robust discussion of national security issues as part of this presidential campaign,
news 07-SEP-11
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[-said]: A war takes up to 80 percent or more of your intelligence network at a time when we should have been spending time and resources on al-Qaida.
news 06-SEP-11
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[-told]: Not only has the threat spread, but the threat that focuses my attention more than anything else is terrorists getting their hands on weapons of mass destruction,
news 06-SEP-11
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[-added that]: Do the math - that means he served roughly two weeks in prison for every person he killed. Two weeks per murder. That is not nearly enough.
irishsun 29-AUG-11
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[-told]: Well I’m going to make a decision by Labor Day, there is no question about it,
news 25-AUG-11
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[ said]: too little too late,
usaToday 19-AUG-11
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[-said]: there is a clear risk that key defense programs will be hollowed out,
cnn 31-JUL-11
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[ said]: I didn't expect anything from these talks with North Korea and they have fully met my expectations,
asahi 31-JUL-11
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[-told]: There is simply no evidence and there hasn't been for 10 years that the North Koreans are really prepared to give up their nuclear weapons program,
AP 29-JUL-11
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[-said]: You don’t want to invest authority and legitimacy in something that doesn’t have authority and legitimacy,
bignewsnetwork 16-JUL-11
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[-said]: Now, after two and a half years, the unemployment rate is still 9.2%, the deficit is out of control, and there is not a lot of hope and change left. So he is very vulnerable.
jpost 16-JUL-11
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[-said]: I am not a shrink; I don’t know what motivated him to do it,
jpost 16-JUL-11
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[-said]: We had to do something to stop them,
jpost 16-JUL-11
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[-said]: If Israel is not prepared to strike, then get ready for an Iran with nuclear weapons, and you can draw your own conclusions. If you think Iran’s behavior is bad now, imagine what it will be if it gets nuclear capability. I think we are all sleepwalking past this.
jpost 13-JUL-11
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[-said]: If you think that this is just a misunderstanding of where the green crayon went in 1949, then think again,
jpost 13-JUL-11
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[-said]: I think that is fundamentally wrong,
jpost 13-JUL-11
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[-said]: It is not a priority for Obama, and I think that is a big mistake for the United States.
jpost 13-JUL-11
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[-said]: It’s been interesting to me in the couple days I’ve been here to note the fascination people have with the question of the Palestinians seeking some kind of resolution at the United Nations on the subject of statehood,
jpost 12-JUL-11
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[-said]: So what we'll be looking at is can we extend the life, from a battery perspective?
cnn 23-JUN-11
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[ said]: I don't think it's either worthy or feasible. Why are humans going to stop lying and cheating?
kyivpost 17-JUN-11
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[ wrote]: Congress should legislate broadly that any UN action that purports to acknowledge or authorize Palestinian statehood will result in a cutoff of all US contributions to the offending agency,
jpost 07-JUN-11
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[-said]: He understands that the role of the secretary-general is that he works for the member governments -- unlike his predecessor, who sent his press people around at one point to say that the role of the secretary-general is really comparable to a secular pope,
news 07-JUN-11
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[-said]: I was glad that the Fox questioners raised it and I think it’s obviously appropriate in the week after the death of [al Qaeda leader Osama] bin Laden and in that sense, I was happy that the subject matter took up the majority that it did.
news 07-MAY-11
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[-said]: I would have brought the body to Guantanamo Bay,
news 07-MAY-11
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[-told]: I don’t think there’s any question that we have to worry about retaliatory attacks and that a heightened level of vigilance is necessary and certainly to prepare and protect against those attacks,
news 07-MAY-11
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[-said]: He’s taken what is a great national triumph and it’s being frittered away in the way it’s been handled very unprofessionally,
news 07-MAY-11
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[-said]: If there’s actionable intelligence, we should be prepared to use it. What I object to is this sort of gratuitous leaking out of this information because I think so doing may have political benefits but it alerts the people who are potentially planning these attacks that we’re onto them and that, in turn, will cause them to change their operations.
news 07-MAY-11
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[-told]: I think it shows how early in the process it is and how really unstructured the debate over national security is,
news 07-MAY-11
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[ added]: It takes nothing away from Obama’s decision to say that any president would have seized this opportunity to eliminate bin Laden,
washtimes 03-MAY-11
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[-said]: I would not arm the Libyan opposition at this point because I don’t think we know enough about them. I don’t think we know where the weapons might ultimately end up. I think the better way to deal with the situation in Libya and it would have been better dealt with right at the very beginning, is to target Gadhafi’s top echelon and try to shatter the regime,
globalsecurity 29-APR-11
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[-said]: He is our first post-American president,
latimes 19-MAR-11
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[-told]: Had we acted in those early days, we could have tipped the balance conclusively against Kadafi and this whole thing might be over,
latimes 19-MAR-11
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[-said]: Obviously we've got appropriate and enormous attention to domestic policy and the revival of the U.S. economy, but the president and the administration have to be able to walk and chew gum at the same time,
latimes 19-MAR-11
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[-said]: responsibility of our government to protect our interests and our values and our friends and our allies,
CBSnews 12-FEB-11
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[-said]: weak, indecisive and apologetic.
CBSnews 12-FEB-11
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[ said]: We have to have a careful and prudent approach to these developments, because we've seen revolutionary situations go wrong too many times before,
CBSnews 12-FEB-11
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[-said]: We have a profound interest in the stability of the Israeli-Egyptian peace relationship,
npr 09-FEB-11
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