"Maybe it’s my libertarian philosophy: but being in government is hard." ― John Bolton Topic(s): Government More From John Bolton "Just as the Security Council was largely irrelevant to the great struggle of the last half of the twentieth century – freedom against Communism – so too it is largely on the sidelines in our contemporary struggles against international terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction." "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 subject to how many security clearance procedures and I must say as irritating as some people may find them I think they are absolutely essential to making sure that people who work in sensitive positions in the national security field in our government are entirely loyal to the United States." More In Government "It is unfortunate that Americans are no longer aware of what the constitution says and what their rights are. Because of that, we are often very passive about what happens when the government violates those rights."― James Bovard "A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible."― Woodrow Wilson "Anger is one of the sinews of the soul."― Thomas Fuller