Paul Wolfowitz Quotes

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

Action, Public, Voice

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

Democracy, Themselves, Support

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

War, Sense, Happened

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

Off, Absence, Weight

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

Pretty, After, Keep

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

High, Economy, Cost

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

Big, American, Countries

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

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

Job, Start, American

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

Battle, Against, Involved

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

Future, Fear, Past

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

Political, Human, Career

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.
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Help, Stop, Welcome

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.
Paul Wolfowitz

Why, Matter, Support

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.
Paul Wolfowitz

Best, View, National

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

Experience, Real, Blessing

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.
Paul Wolfowitz

Health, Money, Country

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.
Paul Wolfowitz

Nonsense, Policy, Foreign

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

Country, Iraq, Weren

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

Philosophy, Different, Wrong

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

History, Someone, Said

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.
Paul Wolfowitz

War, Democracy, Both

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Nationality: American

Type: Public Servant

Born: December 22, 1943

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