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" 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. "

Paul Wolfowitz

World

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Progress

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" One of the things that ultimately led me to leave mathematics and go into political science was thinking I could prevent nuclear war. "

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Thinking

Science

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

" I can't predict the future. "

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Future

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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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Most

Irrelevant

" 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 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. "

" If greater openness is a key to economic success, I believe there is increasingly a need for openness in the political sphere as well. "

" Democracy is a process. "

Paul Wolfowitz

Democracy

Process

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

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

" It is kind of nice to have a common purpose. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" It's a very bad thing when people exterminate other people, and people persecute minorities. "

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

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

" 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. No one ever wrote a scenario for commercial airliners crashing into the World Trade Center. "

" Support for peaceful reform by the people themselves is the right way to promote democracy, not the use of force. "

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

" 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 those regimes as a threat to the United States. "

Paul Wolfowitz

War

Democracy

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

" No one argues that we should have imposed a dictatorship in Afghanistan having liberated the country. Similarly, we weren't about to impose a dictatorship in Iraq having liberated the country. "

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