Quotes By 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
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
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
History is just littered with problems that were solved that were supposed to be impossible.
Paul Wolfowitz
It's a very bad thing when people exterminate other people, and people persecute minorities.
Paul Wolfowitz
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.
Paul Wolfowitz
Look, I think the public generally understands that what's at stake in Afghanistan is American security, number one.
Paul Wolfowitz
One of the things that ultimately led me to leave mathematics and go into political science was thinking I could prevent nuclear war.
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.
Paul Wolfowitz
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.
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
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.
Paul Wolfowitz
I like globalization; I want to say it works, but it is hard to say that when six hundred million people are slipping backwards.
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
Poles understand perhaps better than anyone the consequences of making toothless warnings to brutal tyrants and terrorist regimes.
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
I mean, we're going to probably debate the Iraq war for at least as long as I'm alive.
Paul Wolfowitz