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 certainly don't like a label that suggests I believe that the military is the solution to most of the world's problems.

Paul Wolfowitz

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

Paul Wolfowitz

It is kind of nice to have a common purpose.

Paul Wolfowitz

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

Paul Wolfowitz

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 Ro...

Paul Wolfowitz

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.

Paul Wolfowitz

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.

Paul Wolfowitz

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

Paul Wolfowitz

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

Paul Wolfowitz

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

Paul Wolfowitz

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

Paul Wolfowitz

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

Paul Wolfowitz

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

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

Paul Wolfowitz

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

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

Paul Wolfowitz

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

I can't predict the future.

Paul Wolfowitz

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

Paul Wolfowitz

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

Paul Wolfowitz

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