John Bolton
Historical Details
Position on Issues
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Other, 2010
"The mother of all such plans is in the environmental area: the Kyoto/Copenhagen global warming enterprise. Buried in the failed Copenhagen negotiations were critical provisions to generate funding for 'climate change' activities completely free of congressional action.
"There are many grounds to oppose Copenhagen's statist agenda, but the issue of taxation should be one of the most important. Whatever the reality of the earth's changing temperature and humanity's role in it, the fundamental debate should be over the proposed solutions. If increased taxation, regulation, and control at the national or international levels are the answers, we are clearly asking the wrong questions." ("Obama is Endangering Our Sovereignty" by John Bolton)
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"On abortion, I'm about the same as Reagan; I'm against it except in the cases of rape, incest, or the life of the mother."
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"On gay marriage, I support it, at both the state level and the federal level. Gay marriage is something I've thought about at length as I've looked at my future. I concluded, a couple years ago, that I think it should be permissible and treated the same at both levels."
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"The answer to austerity, however, is not what its opponents like President Barack Obama and some G8 leaders suggest. When they speak of promoting growth, they are not advocating increased private-sector activity: more investment creating new wealth by adding value to material inputs, thereby generating more jobs and growing prosperity. Quite the opposite: they want to expand already enormous government sectors through even greater public spending. 'Growth' to social democrats means growth in government's size and reach, not growth in the real economy. This approach directly contributed to our current predicament; and more of the same will only exacerbate it."
