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" If greater openness is a key to economic success, I believe there is increasingly a need for openness in the political sphere as well. "
Paul Wolfowitz
Political
Key
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" Jobs are a priority for every country. Doing more to improve regulation and help entrepreneurs is the key to creating jobs - and more growth. "
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" 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. "
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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. "
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" Support for peaceful reform by the people themselves is the right way to promote democracy, not the use of force. "
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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. "
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" 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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Country
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" You can't win if you're chasing the wrong problem. "
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" Generally speaking, the stronger the connection between the financing and the ultimate beneficiary, the better the result. "
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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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" History is just littered with problems that were solved that were supposed to be impossible. "
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" I told my father I had to try political science for a year. He thought I was throwing my life away. "
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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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" It's a very bad thing when people exterminate other people, and people persecute minorities. "
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" Sometimes corruption is slowed by shedding light into what was previously shadowed. "
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" For one thing I tend not to see myself in various moulds that people fit me into. "
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" I mean, we're going to probably debate the Iraq war for at least as long as I'm alive. "
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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. "
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