Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" 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. "

Related Quotes:

" 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. "

Paul Wolfowitz

Imagination

World

History

" 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 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Democracy is a process. "

Paul Wolfowitz

Democracy

Process

" I can't predict the future. "

Paul Wolfowitz

Future

Predict

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" For the private sector to flourish, special privilege must give way to equal opportunity and equal risk for all. "

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

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

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

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

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

" We don't start a job that we can't finish... that's the American way. "

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

Paul Wolfowitz

Dictators

Life

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

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

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