Explore Quotes by Paul Wolfowitz

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.

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 like globalization; I want to say it works, but it is hard to say that when six hundred million people are slipping backwards.

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

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

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

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

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.

Before September 11, terrorism was viewed as something ugly but you lived with it.

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

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

It is kind of nice to have a common purpose.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Jobs are a priority for every country. Doing more to improve regulation and help entrepreneurs is the key to creating jobs - and more growth.