Words matter. These are the best Paul Wolfowitz Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I certainly don’t like a label that suggests I believe that the military is the solution to most of the world’s problems.
For one thing I tend not to see myself in various moulds that people fit me into.
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.
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.
For the private sector to flourish, special privilege must give way to equal opportunity and equal risk for all.
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.
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.
I told my father I had to try political science for a year. He thought I was throwing my life away.
Democracy is a process.
Public action should seek to expand the set of opportunities of those who have the least voice and fewest resources and capabilities.
The internal affairs of other countries has a big impact on American interests.
Jobs are a priority for every country. Doing more to improve regulation and help entrepreneurs is the key to creating jobs – and more growth.
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.
Generally speaking, the stronger the connection between the financing and the ultimate beneficiary, the better the result.
The American people are pretty impressive in their ability to keep after something if they think it is doable.
It is kind of nice to have a common purpose.
The absence of Saddam is a huge weight off the Arab world.
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.
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.
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.
Sometimes corruption is slowed by shedding light into what was previously shadowed.
I can’t predict the future.
I’ve met quite a few dictators up close and personal in my life.
One of the things that ultimately led me to leave mathematics and go into political science was thinking I could prevent nuclear war.
Before September 11, terrorism was viewed as something ugly but you lived with it.
That sense of what happened in Europe in World War II has shaped a lot of my views.
It’s a very bad thing when people exterminate other people, and people persecute minorities.
You can’t win if you’re chasing the wrong problem.
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.
Poles understand perhaps better than anyone the consequences of making toothless warnings to brutal tyrants and terrorist regimes.
