Paul Wolfowitz

Iraq has no history of ethnic conflict.

— Paul Wolfowitz

It is kind of nice to have a common purpose.

— Paul Wolfowitz

Democracy is a process.

— Paul Wolfowitz

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

— Paul Wolfowitz

You can't be involved in healthcare without being involved in the battle against AIDS.

— Paul Wolfowitz

For one thing I tend not to see myself in various moulds that people fit me into.

— Paul Wolfowitz

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

— Paul Wolfowitz

Sometimes corruption is slowed by shedding light into what was previously shadowed.

— Paul Wolfowitz

Firing employees, that's unfortunately a part of doing business.

— Paul Wolfowitz

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

— Paul Wolfowitz

If a cat sits on a hot stove once, it will never sit on a cold one either.

— Paul Wolfowitz

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

— Paul Wolfowitz

Islamic State is mainly a direct result of the failure in Syria. That's where IS has grown. That's where IS spread from.

— Paul Wolfowitz

Jobs are a priority for every country. Doing more to improve regulation and help entrepreneurs is the key to creating jobs -…

— 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…

— 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

We did not go to war in Afghanistan or in Iraq to, quote, 'impose democracy.' We went to war in both places…

— Paul Wolfowitz

The use of force to liberate people is very different from the use of force to suppress or control them, or even…

— Paul Wolfowitz

Look, I think the notion that theres a dogma or doctrine of foreign policy that gives you a textbook recipe for how…

— Paul Wolfowitz

I think one has to say it's not just simply a matter of capturing people and holding them accountable, but removing the…

— Paul Wolfowitz

NATO is still the most remarkable alliance in history. It stuck together through 40 years of Cold War, and it then joined…

— Paul Wolfowitz

There's a lot of money to pay for this ... the oil revenues of that country could bring between $50 and $100…

— Paul Wolfowitz

Part of what is wrong with the view of American imperialism is that it is antithetical to our interests. We are better…

— Paul Wolfowitz

I think Obama sees everything through one lens. Doing nothing in the face of the slaughter in Syria is not only shameful,…

— Paul Wolfowitz

The Western alliance should have supported the Sunni opposition against the Assad regime from the beginning. As far as Iraq is concerned,…

— Paul Wolfowitz

Someone once said that history has more imagination than all the scenario writers in the Pentagon, and we have a lot of…

— Paul Wolfowitz

I think that all countries that participate in multilateral institutions see the institutions as a way of advancing what they view as…

— Paul Wolfowitz

I don't know of a single instance of these Arab freedom fighters holding up pictures of bin Laden. I know many instances…

— Paul Wolfowitz

It would be a huge mistake to abandon democracy promotion. Peaceful political change has been enormously successful in the past years in…

— Paul Wolfowitz

There has been a good deal of comment — some of it quite outlandish — about what our postwar requirements might be…

— Paul Wolfowitz

That sense of what happened in Europe in World War II has shaped a lot of my views.

— Paul Wolfowitz

I mean, we're going to probably debate the Iraq war for at least as long as I'm alive.

— Paul Wolfowitz

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

— Paul Wolfowitz

I'm constantly asking for alternative views on most things that come to me.

— Paul Wolfowitz

After a regime is removed, however, it is dangerous to leave a security vacuum.

— Paul Wolfowitz

We don't start a job that we can't finish... that's the American way.

— Paul Wolfowitz

The internal affairs of other countries has a big impact on American interests.

— Paul Wolfowitz

To stay back from an intervention is not always a good solution.

— Paul Wolfowitz

You cant win if youre chasing the wrong problem.

— Paul Wolfowitz

The absence of Saddam is a huge weight off the Arab world.

— Paul Wolfowitz