Quotes By Paul Wolfowitz

The most striking thing is that even before Osama bin Laden was killed, he seemed largely irrelevant to the Arab Spring.

It is kind of nice to have a common purpose.

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

If greater openness is a key to economic success, I believe there is increasingly a need for openness in the political sphere as well.

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.

I'm constantly asking for alternative views on most things that come to me.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

I've met quite a few dictators up close and personal in my life.

I can't predict the future.

One of the things that ultimately led me to leave mathematics and go into political science was thinking I could prevent nuclear war.