John Bolton Quotes

If governments do not want to work with the U.N. and the international organizations, there is a limit to what you can do. And there is also a limit to patience.

World government is a premature concept at this stage. We are moving more and more into supernational arrangements, but it is too early still.

International institutions like the UN can only be as effective as its members allow it to be.

Now, the United Nations is an organization that I believe was founded with good intentions. As a matter of fact, a prominent Tennessean named Cordell Hull was very involved with it.

What we need now is a Treaty of the World not a Treaty of Rome.

I would never play any role in anything that involves the United Nations for obvious reasons.

We shall have world government whether or not we like it. The only question is whether World government will be achieved by conquest or consent.

There was an implicit conviction that the UN would be stronger than the sum of its constituent member-states.

It's very liberating for me to realize that I don't have to step up to the plate with a plot that involves the U.N. Security Council.

The U.N. can meet and discuss, but we don't need their permission.

In the United States, there is a broadly shared view that the U.N. is one of many potential instruments to advance U.S. issues, and we have to decide whether a particular issue is best done through the U.N. or best done through some other mechanism.

I'm a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy.

We shouldn't discuss the world of tomorrow in terms of becoming a balance to the United States. The real issue is whether the United States will define herself as part of the U.N. system-or not.

Legislation that would withhold funding for the United Nations is fundamentally flawed in concept and practice, sets us back, is self-defeating, and doesn't work.

In the United Nations, when China entered, we voted on the same position, and since then we have maintained the same position, that position has not changed.

America has a critical role to play as the most powerful member of the world community.

I've been quite involved in a lot of U.N. operations over the years. I was a U.N. observer at the East Timor referendum in 2000. I've been very involved in that for a long time.

The nations must be organized internationally and induced to enter into partnership, subordinating in some measure national sovereignty to worldwide institutions and obligations.

Well, there's been plenty of ultimatums, and one thing that we better be very clear is that we can't continue to have the kind of defiance of the United Nations, the defiance of the international community that we've had.

The United Nations has become a place where many countries seek to achieve a lynching of the United States by resolution.

But I would say if the Security Council is only relevant if it agrees with the United States, then we have come a long way in a direction that I do not like very much.

However difficult it may be to bring it about, some form of world government, with agreed international law and means of enforcing the law, is inevitable.

No country can dictate its laws to the world.

If the savior of man would revisit and declare himself for a League of Nations, I would be opposed to it.

Multilateralism is the democracy of international society.