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John Bolton

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John Bolton is an American attorney, diplomat, and political commentator who served as the National Security Advisor under President Donald Trump from April 2018 to September 2019. A member of the Republican Party, Bolton has held various significant positions in the U.S. government, including U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations from 2005 to 2006. He is known for his hawkish foreign policy views and has been a prominent advocate for a strong U.S. military presence abroad.

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Jul 24, 2018

the meeting would be better after, 'the Russia witch hunt is over.'

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May 23, 2018

We have very much in mind the Libyan model of 2003-2004.

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Mar 21, 2018

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.

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Mar 21, 2018

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

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Jan 29, 2018

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

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Nov 7, 2017

I would break it immediately and establish a new reality.

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Nov 7, 2017

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.

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Nov 7, 2017

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.

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Nov 7, 2017

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.

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Nov 7, 2017

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.

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