206 Quotes by Paul Wolfowitz

The cost of the high-cost economy remains too high.

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.

I hope we can bring it together at this meeting. I am cautiously optimistic,

Before September 11, terrorism was viewed as something ugly but you lived with it.

indicates they will not provide adequate protection for GPS and other critical DOD systems.

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

Indonesian investors will tell you the same thing, that the biggest discouragement to investing your money here is corruption. This problem is something that needs to be tackled across a whole range of initiatives.

When it comes back to the test of whether we (the World Bank) are doing our job or not, it's whether we're promoting development, not whether we're promoting democracy.

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.