"It’s very personal in its politics, very bitter and very negative." ― John Bolton Topic(s): Politics More From John Bolton "Well, I’m a libertarian conservative, so I believe in limited government/maximum individual freedom." "People say you favor assassination, what do you think war is? Except that it’s assassination on a much larger scale, a much more horrific scale." "I’ve been in the government bureaucracy, I’ve practiced law, I’ve done a lot of different things." More In Politics "For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred."― John W. Gardner "I played by the rules of politics as I found them."― Richard M. Nixon "The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather."― Lionel Trilling