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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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" 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. "

Paul Wolfowitz

World

View

Progress

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

Paul Wolfowitz

Come

Asking

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

" 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. "

Paul Wolfowitz

War

Democracy

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

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

Paul Wolfowitz

Dictators

Life

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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

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

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

" 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

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

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

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

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

" The absence of Saddam is a huge weight off the Arab world. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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