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 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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For the private sector to flourish, special privilege must give way to equal opportunity and equal risk for all.
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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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The cost of the high-cost economy remains too high.
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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 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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This word 'imminent' keeps coming up. The President never said that there was an imminent threat.
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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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You can't win if you're chasing the wrong problem.
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The absence of Saddam is a huge weight off the Arab world.
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I can't predict the future.
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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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No one argues that we should have imposed a dictatorship in Afghanistan having liberated the country. Similarly, we weren't about to impose a dictatorship in Iraq having liberated the country.
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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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I mean, we're going to probably debate the Iraq war for at least as long as I'm alive.
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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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Generally speaking, the stronger the connection between the financing and the ultimate beneficiary, the better the result.
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Up for grabs.
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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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I can't imagine anyone here wanting to spend another $30 billion to be there for another 12 years.
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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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A new regime would have become the United States’ responsibility. Conceivably, this could have led the United States into a more or less permanent occupation of a country that could not govern itself, but where the rule of a foreign occupier would be increasingly resented.