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" China, in the future, is going to have even more nuclear capability than it has had in the past. I don't believe that they have anything to fear from the United States, and I frankly don't believe they do fear the United States. "

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" I certainly don't like a label that suggests I believe that the military is the solution to most of the world's problems. "

Paul Wolfowitz

Problems

Believe

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

" History is just littered with problems that were solved that were supposed to be impossible. "

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

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

Paul Wolfowitz

Dictators

Life

" Public action should seek to expand the set of opportunities of those who have the least voice and fewest resources and capabilities. "

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

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

" The most striking thing is that even before Osama bin Laden was killed, he seemed largely irrelevant to the Arab Spring. "

Paul Wolfowitz

Most

Irrelevant

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

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

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

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

" Part of what is wrong with the view of American imperialism is that it is antithetical to our interests. We are better off when people are governing themselves. I'm sure there is some guy that will tell you that philosophy is no different from the Roman Empire's. Well, it is fundamentally different. "

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

" 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 and they see in many cases multi-lateral institution as the best way to do that. "

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

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

" It's wonderful that so many people want to contribute to fighting aids or malaria. But, if somebody isn't paying attention to the overall health system in the country, a whole lot of money can be wasted. "

" For the private sector to flourish, special privilege must give way to equal opportunity and equal risk for all. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" I told my father I had to try political science for a year. He thought I was throwing my life away. "

" 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. "

" I can't predict the future. "

Paul Wolfowitz

Future

Predict

" Generally speaking, the stronger the connection between the financing and the ultimate beneficiary, the better the result. "

" 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 to interfere and destroy are not. "

" 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 on the kinds of political, sort of big issues of human progress is going to be a distorted view of things, which is why over my career I have gone seemingly from subject to subject to subject. "

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

Paul Wolfowitz

Come

Asking