206 Quotes by Paul Wolfowitz

When you are in a poor country that is challenged just to meet kind of basic needs, compensating farmers adequately and having a framework for doing that gets to be an expensive proposition.

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

We will be working to advance the debt relief agreement that was reached by the G-8 in Gleneagles to ensure that the debt cancellation is accompanied by real additional resources, ... We have been working with all the parties to move this forward. We are committed to getting it done, and we expect real progress at these meetings.

The Western alliance should have supported the Sunni opposition against the Assad regime from the beginning. As far as Iraq is concerned, if it had stayed stable the way it was in 2008, IS would not have been able to expand in Iraq the way they did. The mistake was that Barack Obama withdrew the armed forces from Iraq too fast.

There doesn't seem to be any movement in their decision to amend the law that was the basis of the 1999 agreement.

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.

We certainly hope that U.S. military can be handing this off to other people long before (the end of March) but I think it's right to think of it as goal and not a deadline, ... The real objective, the mission, is to take care of the people who survived this horrible disaster.

Iraq has no history of ethnic conflict.

We want Army weapons systems that are more mobile, lethal and deployable,