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Quotes by Paul Wolfowitz

I think all foreigners should stop interfering in the internal affairs of Iraq. Those who want to come and help are welcome. Those who come to interfere and destroy are not.
– Paul Wolfowitz
I think one has to say it's not just simply a matter of capturing people and holding them accountable, but removing the sanctuaries, removing the support systems, ending states who sponsor terrorism. And that's why it has to be a broad and sustained campaign.
– Paul Wolfowitz
We don't start a job that we can't finish... that's the American way.
– 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.
– Paul Wolfowitz
That sense of what happened in Europe in World War II has shaped a lot of my views.
– Paul Wolfowitz
Someone once said that history has more imagination than all the scenario writers in the Pentagon, and we have a lot of scenario writers here. No one ever wrote a scenario for commercial airliners crashing into the World Trade Center.
– Paul Wolfowitz
One of the things that ultimately led me to leave mathematics and go into political science was thinking I could prevent nuclear war.
– Paul Wolfowitz
It's wonderful that so many people want to contribute to fighting aids or malaria. But, if somebody isn't paying attention to the overall health system in the country, a whole lot of money can be wasted.
– Paul Wolfowitz
I told my father I had to try political science for a year. He thought I was throwing my life away.
– Paul Wolfowitz
I mean, we're going to probably debate the Iraq war for at least as long as I'm alive.
– Paul Wolfowitz
I can't predict the future.
– Paul Wolfowitz
China, in the future, is going to have even more nuclear capability than it has had in the past. I don't believe that they have anything to fear from the United States, and I frankly don't believe they do fear the United States.
– Paul Wolfowitz