11 Quotes By 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 on fear

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 on future

I can't predict the future.
Paul Wolfowitz on future

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 on health

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 on imagination

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

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 on science

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

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 on war

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

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 on war