Quotes by Paul Wolfowitz

About Paul Wolfowitz:

Paul Dundes Wolfowitz is a former President of the World Bank, United States Ambassador to Indonesia, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense, and former dean of the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. He is currently a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, working on issues of international economic development, Africa and public-private partnerships, and chairman of the US-Taiwan Business Council.
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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

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 ...

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

Paul Wolfowitz

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

Paul Wolfowitz

It's a very bad thing when people exterminate other people, and people persecute minorities.

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.

Paul Wolfowitz

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

Paul Wolfowitz

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.

Paul Wolfowitz

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

Paul Wolfowitz

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

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

Paul Wolfowitz

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

Paul Wolfowitz

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

Paul Wolfowitz

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 t...

Paul Wolfowitz

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

Paul Wolfowitz

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

Paul Wolfowitz

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

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

Paul Wolfowitz

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

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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.

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Author Bio

  • NamePaul Wolfowitz
  • Descriptionformer President of the World Bank
  • BornDecember 22, 1943
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionBanker; Political Scientist; Diplomat; Politician; Ambassador; Educationist; Economist