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46 quotes by Paul Wolfowitz

Paul Dundes Wolfowitz (born December 22, 1943) is a former President of the World Bank, United States Ambassador to Indonesia, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense, and former dean of the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. He is currently a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, working on issues of international economic development, Africa and public-private partnerships, and...
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I like globalization; I want to say it works, but it is hard to say that when six hundred million people are slipping backwards.

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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... →

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

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

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

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

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

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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... →

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Generally speaking, the stronger the connection between the financing and the ultimate beneficiary, the better the result.

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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.

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

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

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Democracy is a process.

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