John Robert Bolton an attorney and an American diplomat in several Republican administrations, served as the interim U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations with the title of ambassador from August 2005 until December 2006 on a recess appointment. His letter of resignation from the Bush Administration was accepted on December 4, 2006, effective when his recess appointment ended December 9 at the formal adjournment of the 109th Congress. Bolton is now a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.

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• The only thing that will stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons is regime change in Tehran.
  • http://www.voanews.com/english/2007-03-25-voa23.cfm.

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• I view my job as advocating America's interests, and sometimes that brings you into disagreement with other countries who are advocating their interests. The difference — everybody in the U.N. advocates their own national interests. The only difference is the United States is the only one that's criticized for it.
  • On an interview in Hannity and Colmes

• If the U.N. secretary building in New York lost 10 stories, it wouldn't make a bit of difference.
  • At a Federalist Society forum, 1994

• There is no such thing as the United Nations.
  • At a Federalist Society forum, 1994.

• It is inappropriate for one democracy to tell another democracy not to act in a democratic manner.*
  • Sept. 14 videoconference with reporters in New York, hosted by the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office, by John Bolton, a panelist at the videoconference.