Paul Wolfowitz

Public Servant

1943-12-22

Quotes by 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.

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

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• 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.

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

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• 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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• 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.

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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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• 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.

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

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

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• 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.

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