Quotes By Paul Wolfowitz
Poles understand perhaps better than anyone the consequences of making toothless warnings to brutal tyrants and terrorist regimes.
Paul Wolfowitz
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.
Paul Wolfowitz
The most striking thing is that even before Osama bin Laden was killed, he seemed largely irrelevant to the Arab Spring.
Paul Wolfowitz
I mean, we're going to probably debate the Iraq war for at least as long as I'm alive.
Paul Wolfowitz
I think, in the longer view of things, there is a very powerful pull in the direction of participatory government.
Paul Wolfowitz
It's a very bad thing when people exterminate other people, and people persecute minorities.
Paul Wolfowitz
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.
Paul Wolfowitz
Look, I think the public generally understands that what's at stake in Afghanistan is American security, number one.
Paul Wolfowitz
I told my father I had to try political science for a year. He thought I was throwing my life away.
Paul Wolfowitz
I certainly don't like a label that suggests I believe that the military is the solution to most of the world's problems.
Paul Wolfowitz
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.
Paul Wolfowitz
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.
Paul Wolfowitz
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.
Paul Wolfowitz
Public action should seek to expand the set of opportunities of those who have the least voice and fewest resources and capabilities.
Paul Wolfowitz
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.
Paul Wolfowitz
For the private sector to flourish, special privilege must give way to equal opportunity and equal risk for all.
Paul Wolfowitz
If greater openness is a key to economic success, I believe there is increasingly a need for openness in the political sphere as well.
Paul Wolfowitz
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.
Paul Wolfowitz
You can't be involved in healthcare without being involved in the battle against AIDS.
Paul Wolfowitz
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.
Paul Wolfowitz