"The president might not want to stake this bipartisanship environment on pushing and ramming you...

[Human Torch]

...through, so that you might actually, ironically, be a sacrificial lamb.

What do you make of that?

(LAUGHTER)

BOLTON: Well, I don't — I don't want to speculate on what might come next.

One thing I learned, among the many things I learned from Secretary Powell, is that, in this situation, it really is true that the political nominees depend on the pleasure of the president. I have been honored to serve him. I will be satisfied with whatever decision he makes.

Right now, we are focused on seeing if we can get some action on the Senate floor.

CAVUTO: All right.

If you don't mind my belaboring this point, Ambassador, one is that those who were against you going into this thought you would be a bull in the china shop, that — that you would get everybody annoyed, that you would have no people skills, that you were a horrible human being, yadda, yadda.

It turns out that you have done a pretty fine job. And, when — when — when ambassadors from China and Russia and some of the other countries sing your praises, did that mollify some of those critics? Did you ever privately hear, hey, you know, Bolton is not the guy we thought he would — he would be?

BOLTON: Well, you know, if I were the person that they had caricatured me to be, I probably wouldn't have voted for me anyway.

(LAUGHTER)

BOLTON: So, it's — it's no surprise that I didn't turn out be that way.

But I do think that, if people look at performance, I would be happy to be judged on my performance over the past 16 months. But that — that requires getting it to the Senate floor. So...



http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,230104,00.html

[Greeby]

1. Draw!

:evilgrin: