Paul Wolfowitz
Public Servant
1943-12-22
Quotes by Paul Wolfowitz
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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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