206 Quotes by Paul Wolfowitz

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.

It’s hard to conceive that it would take more forces to provide stability in post-Saddam Iraq than it would take to conduct the war itself and secure the surrender of Saddam’s security forces and his army. Hard to imagine.

Firing employees, that’s unfortunately a part of doing business.

I’ve met quite a few dictators up close and personal in my life.

Every math curriculum in the world is based on the idea of hand-calculating, and most of what you’re teaching is how to calculate. And I think the resistance to this is very variable.

It’s a very bad thing when people exterminate other people, and people persecute minorities.

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

I’m constantly asking for alternative views on most things that come to me.

I think it’s a mistake to rely too much on any one economic factor. It’s why investors try to spread their portfolio round.