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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Paul Wolfowitz

Growth

Africa

Blessing

" 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. "

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

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

Paul Wolfowitz

Thinking

Science

" 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. "

" 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

" 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 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. "

" I think, in the longer view of things, there is a very powerful pull in the direction of participatory government. "

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

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

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

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

Paul Wolfowitz

Come

Asking

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

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

Paul Wolfowitz

Dictators

Life

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

Paul Wolfowitz

Fear

Past

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

" 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. "

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

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

" I like globalization; I want to say it works, but it is hard to say that when six hundred million people are slipping backwards. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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