Paul Wolfowitz Quotes

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• There's a lot of money to pay for this ... the oil revenues of that country could bring between $50 and $100 billion over the…
• Iraq has no history of ethnic conflict.
• 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…
• Public action should seek to expand the set of opportunities of those who have the least voice and fewest resources and capabilities.
• The most striking thing is that even before Osama bin Laden was killed, he seemed largely irrelevant to the Arab Spring,
• I don't know of a single instance of these Arab freedom fighters holding up pictures of bin Laden. I know many instances of them displaying…
• We did not go to war in Afghanistan or in Iraq to, quote, 'impose democracy.' We went to war in both places because we saw…
• The truth is that for reasons that have a lot to do with the U.S. government bureaucracy, we settled on the one issue that everyone…
• The American people are pretty impressive in their ability to keep after something if they think it is doable,
• There has been a good deal of comment — some of it quite outlandish — about what our postwar requirements might be in Iraq. Some…
• Firing employees, that's unfortunately a part of doing business.
• Jobs are a priority for every country. Doing more to improve regulation and help entrepreneurs is the key to creating jobs - and more growth.
• 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.
• Poles understand perhaps better than anyone the consequences of making toothless warnings to brutal tyrants and terrorist regimes.
• The absence of Saddam is a huge weight off the Arab world.
• It's hard to conceive that it would take more forces to provide stability in post-Saddam Iraq than it would take to conduct the war itself…
• That sense of what happened in Europe in World War II has shaped a lot of my views.
• I like globalization; I want to say it works, but it is hard to say that when six hundred million people are slipping backwards.
• I told my father I had to try political science for a year. He thought I was throwing my life away.
• I think, in the longer view of things, there is a very powerful pull in the direction of participatory government.

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