Quotes By Paul Wolfowitz

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Jobs are a priority for every country. Doing more to improve regulation and help entrepreneurs is the key to creating jobs - and more growth.

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

I mean, we're going to probably debate the Iraq war for at least as long as I'm alive.

I think, in the longer view of things, there is a very powerful pull in the direction of participatory government.

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.

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

We don't start a job that we can't finish... that's the American way.

Democracy is a process.

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

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

You can't win if you're chasing the wrong problem.

Before September 11, terrorism was viewed as something ugly but you lived with it.

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

Generally speaking, the stronger the connection between the financing and the ultimate beneficiary, the better the result.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.