Explore Quotes by 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.

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.

I told my father I had to try political science for a year. He thought I was throwing my life away.

Generally speaking, the stronger the connection between the financing and the ultimate beneficiary, the better the result.

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

For the private sector to flourish, special privilege must give way to equal opportunity and equal risk for all.

Democracy is a process.

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.

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'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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

I think, in the longer view of things, there is a very powerful pull in the direction of participatory government.

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

You can't win if you're chasing the wrong problem.

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.