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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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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

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

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

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

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

" 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'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. "

" 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

Past

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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Come

Asking

" 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. "

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

" I can't predict the future. "

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Future

Predict

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

" 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. "

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

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