Paul Wolfowitz Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“It is kind of nice to have a common purpose.”