Quotes By 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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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