Paul Wolfowitz Quotes
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We don't start a job that we can't finish... that's the American way.
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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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I can't imagine anyone here wanting to spend another $30 billion to be there for another 12 years.
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Fuck you.
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Look, I think the notion that there's a dogma or doctrine of foreign policy that gives you a textbook recipe for how to react to all situations is really nonsense.
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It is kind of nice to have a common purpose.
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It's a very bad thing when people exterminate other people, and people persecute minorities.
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If greater openness is a key to economic success, I believe there is increasingly a need for openness in the political sphere as well.
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That sense of what happened in Europe in World War II has shaped a lot of my views.
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Part of what is wrong with the view of American imperialism is that it is antithetical to our interests. We are better off when people are governing themselves. I'm sure there is some guy that will tell you that philosophy is no different from the Roman Empire's. Well, it is fundamentally different.
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I think one has to say it's not just simply a matter of capturing people and holding them accountable, but removing the sanctuaries, removing the support systems, ending states who sponsor terrorism. And that's why it has to be a broad and sustained campaign.
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Before September 11, terrorism was viewed as something ugly but you lived with it.
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For one thing I tend not to see myself in various moulds that people fit me into.
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The internal affairs of other countries has a big impact on American interests.
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I think it's a mistake to rely too much on any one economic factor. It's why investors try to spread their portfolio round.
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I like globalization; I want to say it works, but it is hard to say that when six hundred million people are slipping backwards.
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The most striking thing is that even before Osama bin Laden was killed, he seemed largely irrelevant to the Arab Spring.
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I'm constantly asking for alternative views on most things that come to me.
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I've met quite a few dictators up close and personal in my life.
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The American people are pretty impressive in their ability to keep after something if they think it is doable.
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It's wonderful that so many people want to contribute to fighting aids or malaria. But, if somebody isn't paying attention to the overall health system in the country, a whole lot of money can be wasted.
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We did not go to war in Afghanistan or in Iraq to, quote, 'impose democracy.' We went to war in both places because we saw those regimes as a threat to the United States.
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Firing employees, that's unfortunately a part of doing business.
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I think, in the longer view of things, there is a very powerful pull in the direction of participatory government.