Paul Wolfowitz Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

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

“One of the things that ultimately led me to leave mathematics and go into political science was thinking I could prevent nuclear war.”

“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 told my father I had to try political science for a year. He thought I was throwing my life away.”

“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.”

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

“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.”