If greater openness is a key to economic success, I believe there is increasingly a need for openness in the political sphere as well.

- Paul Wolfowitz

Poles understand perhaps better than anyone the consequences of making toothless warnings to brutal tyrants and terrorist regimes.

- Paul Wolfowitz

That sense of what happened in Europe in World War II has shaped a lot of my views.

- 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 that all countries that participate in multilateral institutions see the institutions as a way of advancing what they view as their national interests and they see in many cases multi-lateral institution as the best way to do that.

- Paul Wolfowitz

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.

- 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

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

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

It is kind of nice to have a common purpose.

- Paul Wolfowitz

Look, I think the public generally understands that what's at stake in Afghanistan is American security, number one.

- Paul Wolfowitz

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

- Paul Wolfowitz

I think, in the longer view of things, there is a very powerful pull in the direction of participatory government.

- Paul Wolfowitz

I certainly don't like a label that suggests I believe that the military is the solution to most of the world's problems.

- Paul Wolfowitz

I can't predict the future.

- Paul Wolfowitz

For the private sector to flourish, special privilege must give way to equal opportunity and equal risk for all.

- Paul Wolfowitz

For one thing I tend not to see myself in various moulds that people fit me into.

- 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

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.

- 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