Paul Wolfowitz

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

“The most striking thing is that even before Osama bin Laden was killed, he seemed largely irrelevant to the Arab Spring.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“I certainly don't like a label that suggests I believe that the military is the solution to most of the world's problems.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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