Paul Wolfowitz Quotes

Poles understand perhaps better than anyone the consequences of making toothless warnings to brutal tyrants and terrorist regimes.

Public action should seek to expand the set of opportunities of those who have the least voice and fewest resources and capabilities.

The cost of the high-cost economy remains too high.

Sometimes corruption is slowed by shedding light into what was previously shadowed.

For one thing I tend not to see myself in various moulds that people fit me into.

I certainly don't like a label that suggests I believe that the military is the solution to most of the world's problems.

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.

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.

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.

It's hard to conceive that it would take more forces to provide stability in post-Saddam Iraq than it would take to conduct the war itself and secure the surrender of Saddam's security forces and his army. Hard to imagine.

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.

For the private sector to flourish, special privilege must give way to equal opportunity and equal risk for all.

Iraq has no history of ethnic conflict.

Look, I think the public generally understands that what's at stake in Afghanistan is American security, number one.

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.

That sense of what happened in Europe in World War II has shaped a lot of my views.

You can't be involved in healthcare without being involved in the battle against AIDS.

I told my father I had to try political science for a year. He thought I was throwing my life away.

History is just littered with problems that were solved that were supposed to be impossible.

The internal affairs of other countries has a big impact on American interests.

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.

The absence of Saddam is a huge weight off the Arab world.

I like globalization; I want to say it works, but it is hard to say that when six hundred million people are slipping backwards.

It is kind of nice to have a common purpose.

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.

The American people are pretty impressive in their ability to keep after something if they think it is doable.

It's a very bad thing when people exterminate other people, and people persecute minorities.

Support for peaceful reform by the people themselves is the right way to promote democracy, not the use of force.