Paul Wolfowitz Quotes
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The use of force to liberate people is very different from the use of force to suppress or control them, or even to defeat them.
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Sometimes corruption is slowed by shedding light into what was previously shadowed.
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I told my father I had to try political science for a year. He thought I was throwing my life away.
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I think all foreigners should stop interfering in the internal affairs of Iraq. Those who want to come and help are welcome. Those who come to interfere and destroy are not.
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This word 'imminent' keeps coming up. The President never said that there was an imminent threat.
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Look, I think the public generally understands that what's at stake in Afghanistan is American security, number one.
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The cost of the high-cost economy remains too high.
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The absence of Saddam is a huge weight off the Arab world.
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China, in the future, is going to have even more nuclear capability than it has had in the past. I don't believe that they have anything to fear from the United States, and I frankly don't believe they do fear the United States.
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Generally speaking, the stronger the connection between the financing and the ultimate beneficiary, the better the result.
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For the private sector to flourish, special privilege must give way to equal opportunity and equal risk for all.
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I can't predict the future.
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I certainly don't like a label that suggests I believe that the military is the solution to most of the world's problems.
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One of the things that ultimately led me to leave mathematics and go into political science was thinking I could prevent nuclear war.
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I mean, we're going to probably debate the Iraq war for at least as long as I'm alive.
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I have always had a tendency to keep enlarging problems which I personally think is the way the world works... that seeing anything one dimensionally on the kinds of political, sort of big issues of human progress is going to be a distorted view of things, which is why over my career I have gone seemingly from subject to subject to subject.
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I think that all countries that participate in multilateral institutions see the institutions as a way of advancing what they view as their national interests and they see in many cases multi-lateral institution as the best way to do that.
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You can't win if you're chasing the wrong problem.
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Support for peaceful reform by the people themselves is the right way to promote democracy, not the use of force.
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...the importance of leadership and what it consists of: not lecturing and posturing and demanding, but demonstrating that your friends will be protected and taken care of, that your enemies will be punished, and that those who refuse to support you will regret having done so.
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I can't imagine anyone here wanting to spend another $30 billion to be there for another 12 years.
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Someone once said that history has more imagination than all the scenario writers in the Pentagon, and we have a lot of scenario writers here. No one ever wrote a scenario for commercial airliners crashing into the World Trade Center.
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I'm not sure the oil producers are enjoying real growth. That troubles me. For experience has shown that oil can be more of a curse than a blessing. And not only in Africa.
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It is kind of nice to have a common purpose.