John Bolton

I think the only diplomatic option left is to end the regime in North Korea by effectively having the south take it over.

There is no united nations. The Secretariat building in New York has 38 stories. If you lost 10 stories today, it wouldn't make a bit of difference.

All of them acted in the best interest of the country as they saw it and consistently to what they thought are policies were.

The way to break through that, and I do think it is scholasticism, as I said in my testimony, is to move forward with actually relocating the embassy, acknowledging the reality that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel.

the greatest threat to peace and security in the Middle East remains the Iranian nuclear weapons program

I think we need to revisit the entire concept of having a kind of permanent de facto embassy to a Palestinian state that doesn't exist yet.

the fundamental misconception about the potential impact of an embassy move, which assumes in part that the United States today is in equipoise between the Palestinians and the State of Israel.

I think specifically in terms of Gaza and the West Bank, I really think that the United States is taking advantage of a potential for a reopening of the peace process.

I think the embassy move has been given a symbolic significance well in excess of its practical effects.

I would break it immediately and establish a new reality.

I think it's very important that we understand that the country in the world most sensitive to the regime in Jordan, most aware of the implications for security, is Israel.

No, I don't think it is worth negotiating. We have negotiated for 10 years.

Accordingly, I conclude that only one U.N. reform is worth the effort. And without it, nothing else will succeed.

The Clinton trip is a significant propaganda victory for North Korea whether or not he carried an official message from President Obama.

Mr. Clinton paid a -- quote -- 'form of political ransom.'

I think there's a very real risk here that the intelligence community is like generals fighting the last war. They got Iraq wrong and they're overcompensating by understating the potential threat from Iran.

Ahmadinejad emerges as a win-win for him here. He had a victory by taking the hostages. And now he has another victory by what is effectively a unilateral decision to give them back to the British as an Easter present.

I'm afraid it proves the opposite. I think Ahmadinejad emerges as a win/win for him here. He had a victory by taking the hostages and now he has another victory by what is effectively a unilateral decision to give them back to the British…

I think they should have tried harder with their European colleagues to move toward economic sanctions.

I think that you have to look at this hostage taking not as an isolated incident, but part of a larger scheme that Iran is pursuing to project its power in the Middle East and really globally, part and parcel to their effort to acquire…

We have got to have an increase in pressure on the Iranians right now. I think they have used force, illegally, as best we can tell. If Iran can get away with this, it will simply embolden them.

this deal is a very bad idea, that he hopes that the president still has enough time to say no, that it's going to show the United States as being weak while trying to deal with Iraq and Iran, that it goes against established…

John Bolton, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., is resigning, amid opposition in the Senate to his confirmation.

We're not going to address that sort of comic strip approach to international affairs.

We're moving as fast as we can. They're just going from one meeting to another.