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" I mean, we're going to probably debate the Iraq war for at least as long as I'm alive. "
Paul Wolfowitz
Long
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Alive
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" I like globalization; I want to say it works, but it is hard to say that when six hundred million people are slipping backwards. "
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" Look, I think the public generally understands that what's at stake in Afghanistan is American security, number one. "
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" Poles understand perhaps better than anyone the consequences of making toothless warnings to brutal tyrants and terrorist regimes. "
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" 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. "
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" I've met quite a few dictators up close and personal in my life. "
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Up
Life
" The internal affairs of other countries has a big impact on American interests. "
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Big
American
Impact
" 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. "
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Support
Think
Why
" For one thing I tend not to see myself in various moulds that people fit me into. "
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One Thing
Fit
" For the private sector to flourish, special privilege must give way to equal opportunity and equal risk for all. "
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Opportunity
Special
" 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. "
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" Sometimes corruption is slowed by shedding light into what was previously shadowed. "
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Light
Corruption
Shedding
" It is kind of nice to have a common purpose. "
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Kind
Purpose
Nice
" The American people are pretty impressive in their ability to keep after something if they think it is doable. "
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People
Ability
Pretty
" Generally speaking, the stronger the connection between the financing and the ultimate beneficiary, the better the result. "
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Better
Stronger
Result
" 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. "
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Iraq
Country
Afghanistan
" I can't predict the future. "
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Future
Predict
" Democracy is a process. "
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Democracy
Process
" 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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Me
Thinking
Science
" 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. "
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Defeat
Different
Control
" 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
He
" 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. "
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World
View
Progress
" I'm constantly asking for alternative views on most things that come to me. "
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Me
Come
Asking
" 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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Fear
More
Past
" 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. "
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Country
People
Money
" Support for peaceful reform by the people themselves is the right way to promote democracy, not the use of force. "
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Peaceful
People
Support
" 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. "
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Growth
Africa
Blessing
" I certainly don't like a label that suggests I believe that the military is the solution to most of the world's problems. "
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Problems
Like
Believe
" Look, I think the notion that there's a dogma or doctrine of foreign policy that gives you a textbook recipe for how to react to all situations is really nonsense. "
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Think
You
Nonsense
" That sense of what happened in Europe in World War II has shaped a lot of my views. "
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Shaped
World War II
World