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John R. Bolton
said
Pakistan is the only government consisting simultaneously of arsonists and firefighters.
— quoted from A. Herman, Sep 2021, It's time to pull the plug on our toxic relationship with Pakistan
John R. Bolton
American lawyer and diplomat (born 1948)
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Born 1948 · age 78United States
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A lawyer who climbed from Reagan's Justice Department to the innermost circle of two presidencies, Bolton became Washington's most visible hawk—the man who pushed for war in Iraq, urged strikes on Iran, and fought the nuclear deal from inside the White House until Trump forced him out.
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John Robert Bolton II was born November 20, 1948, and built a career shuttling between government posts and think tanks, always pressing for harder lines abroad. He served as assistant attorney general under Reagan from 1985 to 1989, then moved to State—first handling international organization affairs from 1989 to 1993, later running arms control policy from 2001 to 2005 while advocating for the Iraq invasion as a director of the Project for the New American Century. George W. Bush made him UN ambassador in 2005 via recess appointment; he left in December 2006 when Senate confirmation looked…
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John R. Bolton
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Individual liberty is the whole purpose of political life, and I thought it was threatened then [in 1964 becoming politically engaged at age 15] and I think it's threatened now.
— "The Man with the Mustache", interview by Jay Nordlinger in National Review (December 31, 2010)
John R. Bolton
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There were a lot of people who were Reaganauts going in, as there are always people who are conservatives going in. But they don't act like conservatives after they get there.
— "The Man with the Mustache", interview by Jay Nordlinger in National Review (December 31, 2010)
John R. Bolton
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People have said to me, "Well, if you ran you might get more speaking appearances, and you could sell another book." Frankly, that's the last thing on my mind.
— "The Man with the Mustache", interview by Jay Nordlinger in National Review (December 31, 2010)
John R. Bolton
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[Recalling George H. W. Bush's Secretary of State James Baker:] [T]he best secretary of state since Dean Acheson.
— "The Man with the Mustache", interview by Jay Nordlinger in National Review (December 31, 2010)
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