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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. "
Paul Wolfowitz
Me
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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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" If greater openness is a key to economic success, I believe there is increasingly a need for openness in the political sphere as well. "
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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. "
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" I've met quite a few dictators up close and personal in my life. "
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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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" Democracy is a process. "
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" 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. "
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" Sometimes corruption is slowed by shedding light into what was previously shadowed. "
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" 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. "
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" It is kind of nice to have a common purpose. "
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" 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. "
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" For the private sector to flourish, special privilege must give way to equal opportunity and equal risk for all. "
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" 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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More
Past
" The most striking thing is that even before Osama bin Laden was killed, he seemed largely irrelevant to the Arab Spring. "
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Most
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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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Blessing
" Look, I think the public generally understands that what's at stake in Afghanistan is American security, number one. "
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Think
Security
" Support for peaceful reform by the people themselves is the right way to promote democracy, not the use of force. "
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People
Support
" 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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Best
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" That sense of what happened in Europe in World War II has shaped a lot of my views. "
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Shaped
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" I can't predict the future. "
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Predict
" The absence of Saddam is a huge weight off the Arab world. "
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World
Weight
" 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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" The internal affairs of other countries has a big impact on American interests. "
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American
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" 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. "
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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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" Before September 11, terrorism was viewed as something ugly but you lived with it. "
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" The cost of the high-cost economy remains too high. "
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" The American people are pretty impressive in their ability to keep after something if they think it is doable. "
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" We don't start a job that we can't finish... that's the American way. "
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