Paul Wolfowitz Quotes

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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.
• For the private sector to flourish, special privilege must give way to equal opportunity and equal risk for all.
• The cost of the high-cost economy remains too high.
• Democracy is a process.
• For one thing I tend not to see myself in various moulds that people fit me into.
• 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…
• It is kind of nice to have a common purpose.
• 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…
• Generally speaking, the stronger the connection between the financing and the ultimate beneficiary, the better the result.
• Sometimes corruption is slowed by shedding light into what was previously shadowed.
• Before September 11, terrorism was viewed as something ugly but you lived with it.
• The internal affairs of other countries has a big impact on American interests.
• 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.
• 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.…
• History is just littered with problems that were solved that were supposed to be impossible.
• One of the things that ultimately led me to leave mathematics and go into political science was thinking I could prevent nuclear war.
• Support for peaceful reform by the people themselves is the right way to promote democracy, not the use of force.
• 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…
• We don't start a job that we can't finish... that's the American way.

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